14 DAY TRIAL // The Apple Online store briefly listed the Box Set containing Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard yesterday, with Apple claiming the software would ship within 24 hours from purchase. The mistake was rapidly corrected by the company by pulling the offer, as the new OS is not yet shipping. The error seems to corroborate with rumors that Snow Leopard is launching as soon as August 28 (next week).
MacRumors has gotten hold of a screenshot of the respective web page as it was listing the Mac Box Set containing the yet-unreleased Snow Leopard. You can view it to the left (click to enlarge). The folks at Macworld do their bit by reporting that the Mac Box Set product was pulled after a call was made to Apple online sales to check whether the new OS would indeed ship in the advertised time frame (24 hours).
Reportedly, a saleswoman verified the error with technical support. The staff later pulled the offer from the website, while the saleswoman added that, “It might not ship overnight as the Snow Leopard OS was not yet shipping,” the report reads. Also, the person was unreachable following the pulling of the products, while Apple officials failed to answer requests for commenting on the matter. With the offer pulled, Google still shows an Apple Store result for the respective Mac Box Set with the product number MC209Z/A.
The Mac Box Set bundles Mac OS X with iLife '09 and iWork '09. Launched in late January for $169, the current (Leopard) version of the Box Set can be acquired. On the now-removed page, Apple listed an identical price point for the Snow Leopard Mac Box Set, as well as noted that all the software bundled inside would be required for users looking to upgrade from OS X 10.4 Tiger to Snow Leopard. As Mac fans should know, Snow Leopard is an upgrade from OS X 10.5 Leopard. Tiger users must go through this phase first, in order to get computing in Snow Leopard.