Snow Leopard is set to be released on Friday. I had originally ordered it from Amazon, but once I saw that the Apple Store guaranteed delivery on Friday, I cancelled my Amazon order and ordered from Apple. Amazon dropped the price a few bucks today and without tax, would have been cheaper, but I couldn’t wait! Amazon may actually deliver on Friday, but I decided to spend the extra bucks so I could play with it this weekend (not sure I’ll have much time, however).
I ordered the Family Pack as I have 4 computers and may get another one to use as a media center. While I know that there is no difference between the single user copy and the Family Pack, I’m doing the right thing by getting fully licensed copies of it. It’s not all that expensive, so it doesn’t hurt much to spend the money on it. If it were $150-$200, I probably wouldn’t have gotten the family pack and would only have upgraded my main machine.
As others have already written, most of the changes are under the hood. Those changes should lead to a more stable operating system, at least that is the hope. I’ll likely do a clean install (if the install DVD lets me) and start rebuilding my system. This will take awhile, but after having my machine for 10 months, I’ve installed a lot of cruft.
We’ll see how this upgrade goes; at this point, I have no plans on upgrading our company as I need to kick the tires for awhile and see if there is a real benefit for deploying it.