speaking of snow leopard, i heard from apple that if anyone has tiger still and they want to upgrade to snow leopard, they can directly without needing leopard first.
On Jun 18, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Scott Bresnahan wrote: > > Hi, > > I bet it may just be the full install disk of Snow Leopard when you > buy the upgrade. What you are forgetting is that this is an Intel > only version of the OS, so the number of Intel only Macs that shipped > with Tiger compared to Leopard is relatively small. Not to mention > those owners who already upgraded to Leopard reduce that number even > more. I'm just speculating, but most people who have a mac that can > run Snow Leopard, already have Leopard by definition. > > Time will tell. > > > --Scott > > > > > > At 6:00 PM -0400 6/18/09, Scott Howell wrote: > 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: <mailto:cblo...@aol.com>Chris Blouch > To: <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>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: <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > > ] > On Behalf Of Brandon Misch > Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:42 PM > To: <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>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" <mailto:s.how...@verizon.net><s.how...@verizon.net > > > To: <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com><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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > --Scott > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
