Hey!!! Good to know!!!! I will have to tell my friend who has Tiger that he can upgrade to snow lepard!! On Jun 22, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Brandon Misch wrote:
> > 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. 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