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Re: Snow Leopard UPGRADE will cost $29 - john-o - 06-08-2009
Robert M.,
You'll be fine. There's no way they'd say it was only for purchasers of the retail box. You are a Leopard user, so you'll qualify...
Re: Snow Leopard UPGRADE will cost $29 - TheTominator - 06-08-2009
Is there anything official on the specs required to run Snow Leopard?
Is my G5 dual PPC still in the running?
Edit:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
Nope. Intel CPU required.
That explains the 6GB slimming since they no longer have to ship PPC code.
Re: Snow Leopard UPGRADE will cost $29 - Doc - 06-08-2009
$10 to upgrade if you buy a new Mac.
Re: Snow Leopard UPGRADE will cost $29 - Lux Interior - 06-08-2009
I hope that the upgrade disk just looks for a valid Leopard install. I don't think I have any of those "upgrade coupons" that we all derided as useless
Re: Snow Leopard UPGRADE will cost $29 - ajakeski - 06-08-2009
And it's 64 bit!
I seem to remember a lot of 64 bit hubbub back in the early days of the G5.
Re: Snow Leopard UPGRADE will cost $29 - Acer - 06-08-2009
Hmm...Apple has NOT been in the habit of making two different install versions, as in "upgrade only" or "full install" on it's OSs since the pre-X days (unlike M$, but I digress). I mean, they are within their rights to, but that means supporting two different install versions, as well. What are the odds the $29 upgrade won't care?
Re: Snow Leopard UPGRADE will cost $29 - RAMd®d - 06-08-2009
I hope that the upgrade disk just looks for a valid Leopard install.
I'm betting that's all it does.
What I'm curious about if it's the *full* OS looking for a Leopard install. I'd prefer that as I'd rather not go from a .5 to .6 via an upgrade.
And though I'd probably want to do an Archive and Install, I'd settle for Nuke n Pave, as long as I didn't have to *upgrade* the installed OS.
Re: Snow Leopard UPGRADE will cost $29 - john-o - 06-08-2009
RAMd®d wrote: What I'm curious about if it's the *full* OS looking for a Leopard install. I'd prefer that as I'd rather not go from a .5 to .6 via an upgrade.
And though I'd probably want to do an Archive and Install, I'd settle for Nuke n Pave, as long as I didn't have to *upgrade* the installed OS.
You lost me... Care to explain?
Re: Snow Leopard UPGRADE will cost $29 - RAMd®d - 06-08-2009
You lost me... Care to explain?
I'll try.
When I go from .x to another .x, I prefer do an Archive and Install. If that were not an option, I'd settle for a NnP and reinstall everything from scratch.
Now if for some reason, this Upgrade disc could *only* upgrade the installed OS (an option for Retail disks), that would preclude my former preference and latter option, like a .x.x upgrade, changing only a relative few bits and pieces until there is a new OS.
So I'm hoping that it's a full OS checking for and looking to *replace* the Leopard install, and not a giant Combo updater.
Re: Snow Leopard UPGRADE will cost $29 - guitarist - 06-08-2009
If you feel you have to "Nuke and Pave" before installing an OS Update, you might have benefited from reading the instructions for the more reliable conventional methods?
