No Tiger to Snow Leopard only upgrade?

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Looks like it from the Apple web site.

"If your Intel-based Mac is running Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger, purchase the Mac Box Set (when available), which is a single, affordable package that includes Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard; iLife ’09, with the latest versions of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD; and iWork ’09, Apple’s productivity suite for home and office including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote."

If so, the price to go from Tiger to Snow Leopard will be $169. I guess that would help take some of sting out of the $29 Leopard to Snow Leopard option for Apple.

[slbett]

That is true, but iLife '09 doesn't run on Tiger. Yes, the price is more but you get iLife '09 and Snow Leopard. I think it has to do with PPC code and Intel code. The same OS isn't installed on the two different chips. I may be wrong.

[RAMd®d]

I thought I saw something in the Keynote that showed a full (Retail) Snow Leopard going for $129.

Since Snow isn't shipping or announced for sale yet, I wouldn't worry about not seeing pricing for either flavor.

The Box Set is a really good deal, but if one doesn't need the extra goodies, one should be able to buy the OS by itself.

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slbett wrote: Yes, the price is more but you get iLife '09 and Snow Leopard.

True, you get Snow Leopard, iLife and iWorks. It's a great deal for a lot of people, but then there are users like me who haven't used either suite in years. But I suspect the subset of users who haven't upgraded to Leopard yet and have absolutely no use for either one of the suites is probably fairly small. But it would still surprise me a bit if after all these years they switched to the only "retail package" upgrade path being the bundle. We'll see when the rubber hits the road, I guess.