Apple (AAPL) could sell about 5 million copies of Snow Leopard in the third quarter, estimates analyst firm Piper Jaffray. The analyst firm estimates the Mac OS X installed base at over 40 million, and says the 5 million unit sales will add $66 million to Apple’s operating income in the quarter… Tweet This Post

The Apple store was down for quite a while just now, and lo and behold when it was reinstated Mac OS X Snow Leopard became available to mankind – that is to say you can now pre-order a copy. The major update to OS X, aka 10.6, will start shipping next Friday August 28, as [...]