When I purchased my copy of Leopard, it was a full copy and didn't care if I had Tiger installed. I think this version is going to be significant enough that an upgrade disk would be quite a surprise. It is in many ways a different os, if you will. On Jun 18, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Brent Harding wrote:
> I suppose then from now out every time you reinstall, you will need > both disks. I wonder what happens whenever the next one comes out, > install leopard, then Snow Leopard, then whatever? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Chris Blouch > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:11 PM > Subject: Re: Pricing on Snow Leopard > > In the past there have been upgrade CDs that check for an existing > installation on the hard drive. I suspect they will do something > like that. > > CB > > Sean Tikkun wrote: >> >> The 'low price' really isn't that low. iWork is $40, iLife is $40 >> and >> the last couple upgrades have been $80 I think. Just shows that in >> truth Apple products are very affordable! Sure you can buy a PC for >> $600, but you Office is going to cost you enough to balance out the >> difference of a mac! They are a hardware company, not a software >> company. I expect it will be a full upgrade disc. >> >> >> On Jun 17, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Dan Eickmeier wrote: >> >> >>> Good questions Kevin, haven't really heard anything as of yet. With >>> such a low price, i'd think it'd just be an upgrade disc, but not >>> sure. Hard to say. >>> On Jun 17, 2009, at 11:48 PM, Kevin Reeves wrote: >>> >>> >>>> So how are they doing this? Is this gonna be an update pushed to >>>> the >>>> leopard >>>> machines after a purchase is made, or do you go to an apple store >>>> and show >>>> proof of purchase and get a retail copy. If you get a disk, will it >>>> be a >>>> full install, or just an upgrade disk, whereby you need leopard >>>> first, much >>>> like the windows disks. Just some random questions. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Misch >>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:42 PM >>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> Subject: Re: Pricing on Snow Leopard >>>> >>>> >>>> well, i'm sure the intel machines that use tiger will use leopard. >>>> only power pc macs won't work. >>>> >>>> On Jun 16, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Brent Harding wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Wow, I like that they do the honor system with this. I hope people >>>>> don't start abusing it and buying it for Tiger machines, but >>>>> most of >>>>> the stuff running Tiger probably won't support it anyways. >>>>> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Scott Howell" <s.how...@verizon.net> >>>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:08 AM >>>>> Subject: Re: Pricing on Snow Leopard >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> You should contact Apple and register the machine with them. I >>>>>> may >>>>>> be >>>>>> wrong on this since I have not purchased a machine in this way, >>>>>> but >>>>>> when you install the OS, you register and that info is updated. >>>>>> You >>>>>> could call Apple Care at (1-800) 275-2273 and see if you can >>>>>> register >>>>>> it in your name. Either way, I don't think it will make any >>>>>> difference. Either way, I would not be concerned about this >>>>>> because >>>>>> of course once you get your copy of Snow Leopard, you would be >>>>>> registering it in your name and there is as far as I can recall >>>>>> no >>>>>> proof of purchase required when purchasing the upgrade. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jun 15, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Brent Harding wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Oh, I thought I heard that it gets to be a problem with ones >>>>>>> sold >>>>>>> on >>>>>>> Ebay because the machine itself might be registered in someone >>>>>>> else's name. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
