Hasta La Gadget!

It’s Friday morning, February 28th 2009, and look who came to breakfast. Why, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, of course. I popped into the local branch of FNAC to pick it up (after trying yesterday, when the Genius gave me an apologetic shrug and told me not to worry, and that there would be “hundreds of copies” in the morning).

Here in Europe you’ll pay €29, which works out at $41.50, a hefty chunk of change more than the US price. I shouldn’t complain, though, as normally we have to wait weeks and pay more.

I saw no queues, and I suspect that there won’t be many anywhere. After all, its a product which adds little of note to the normal user, and is certainly not in short supply. On to the pictures. This is an unboxing, after all.

The box. You’ll see this is the Spanish version, although of course it still has the same awful clip-art. We’re fully expecting to see v10.7 featuring Comic Sans on the box. This is what happens when Steve Jobs goes on leave.

Gah! This is messy, too. I think we can peg the beginnings of this design decline to the purple space picture that “graced” every Mac’s desktop since 10.5.

This one, at least, retains some Apple minimalism.

Does anyone ever read this part?

The same horrific picture on the disk. Seriously, Apple, what happened? Can’t you afford a graphic designer?

Some things never change. Stickers! Who doesn’t love stickers? These are destined for my hackintosh.

Product page [Apple]