Woo hoo! The rumours were true!! Apple has officially announced today that the next version of the Mac OS X operating system, version 10.6 Snow Leopard, will be released Friday August 28, 2009. This is a little ahead of schedule, since the official release date set by Apple before this was "September 2009". No date, no indication of early, mid, or late September either. However, the rumour mill recently pegged August 28th as a likely date.

I’ve already pre-ordered the software on Apple’s site. $35CDN plus taxes for the upgrade from Leopard (i.e. Mac OS X 10.5) with free shipping. I’m really looking forward to it getting here; not sure when that will be though.

Why am I so excited when I posted on the 14th how stoked I was over Windows 7? Well, it quickly became apparent to me that I was excited over it because it was new. My opinion of it hasn’t changed - it still is a terrific upgrade to Windows and a MAJOR improvement from my Vista experience, but once the newness started to wear off I could see that it wasn’t enough to keep me from my Mac. That and the Apple touchpad drivers for Windows are really sub-par which makes interacting with Windows frustrating without an external mouse.