NPD, a market research company, is reporting that Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard has been doing extremely well since its launch, even when compared to Leopard sales. For example, they have said that Snow Leopard has sold more than twice as many copies as Leopard during the first two weeks of being for sale on the technology market. Furthermore, they are also stating that sales of Snow Leopard only declined 25% from week one to week two while they had declined by 60% for Leopard in l

Slick. Speedy. Sexy. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. You could easily replace the word “snow” in “Snow Leopard” with any other “s” adjective and still describe it accurately. Snow Leopard, by Apple’s own admission, is “The worlds most advanced operating system [Leopard]. Finely tuned.” It is, however, a truly unique experience for Mac users. And for 29 bucks, it can not be denied that this is easily the best OS upgrade the Mac has ever seen.

In general, the upgrade to Snow Leopard has been quite a smooth one. There have been the usual annoyances of wiped data and lost settings, but most upgrades appear to have been successful. One thing you may have noticed, however, is that some software may no longer operate correctly or is seemingly missing altogether. To help with identifying the affect software, Apple has released a list of the incompatible titles.

Part of Apple’s claim with Snow Leopard is that it’ll be a leaner system. This is nice to hear in a keynote, but it doesn’t always work out that way in the real word. Now that I’ve purchased and installed Snow Leopard, I was finally able to put that claim to the test. I’m happy to report that, yes, Snow Leopard did free up some disk space on my MacBook. The thing is, though, the computer doesn’t seem to know just how much.

Looks like Snow Leopard is an alpha male, at least when it comes to the RTF document format. If you use a word processor that saves to RTF by default, you’ll notice quite quickly that Snow Leopard is going to take control of all of your files, forcing them to open in TextEdit. In other words, double clicking your Nisus Writer documents or any filed tagged .rtf is going to launch TextEdit, not the program you used to create the file. Thankfully, there is a work around, and chances are you already know how to do it.

Today sees the release of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the latest update to Apple’s ever-popular operating system. There’s so much talk of the speed boosts and enhancements that what you’ll actually get may not seem so clear, so here’s what you can expect from Snow Leopard regarding 64 bit processing.

The Apple Store has returned online with one noticeable change: the addition of Snow Leopard. Apple are now allowing customers to pre-order Snow Leopard, and says it will ship by August 28th. I would imagine it will also be available in Apple Retail Stores on August 28th, along with premium resellers and other outlets. Customers who pre-ordered from Amazon.com should also get the same treatment, with various people saying their transaction has changed status to “prepared for shipment.”

Apple slated Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) for a September launch at a $29 price point when they announced it in detail at WWDC earlier this year. Amazon is generally the first 3rd party retail store to have a product for sale. This does not change with Apple, as their next iteration of Mac OS X is now available for pre-order at Amazon.

The excitement continues to build for tomorrow’s WWDC keynote and the developer announcements that are sure to follow. Yesterday, we took a look at what to expect from iPhone OS 3.0, as well as at Apple’s strategy for rolling out updates and why they include (or, more importantly, don’t include) certain features in each iteration. Today, we’ll examine Snow Leopard, the next big update to Apple’s Macintosh operating system.

With the 2009 Worldwide Developers Conference less than a week away, there’s plenty of speculation of what new products Apple will announce (especially after the dud that was MacWorld Expo). Here’s a roundup of the latest speculation (Snow Leopard, iPhone, Mac Netbook, Mac Tablet, Stevenote) along with the liklihood of it happening.