It’s been known for a while that the upcoming upgrade of Mac OS X Snow Leopard is $29, for people who already have Leopard. (Five user family pack is $49)

I didn’t know this, but for people who didn’t upgrade to Leopard, there’s a Mac Box Set with Snow Leopard , similar to a Mac Box Set including Leopard, priced at $169.

iLife and iWork separately costs $79 each from Apple. So by some fuzzy math, the person who gets this Mac Box Set ends up with paying $11 for Snow Leopard. Of course, this isn’t completely true, since people might not want iLife or iWork, but it’s interesting to see the repackaging that Apple has done here.

Note: I actually didn’t know of the existence of the Mac Box Set with Leopard until today. I wonder when this packaging happened… I did a search for a Mac Box Set with Tiger, but there doesn’t seem to be any information on it.

Oh, and if you still haven’t gotten your Snow Leopard yet…