Snow Leopard UPGRADE will cost $29

[john-o]

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...

[TheTominator]

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.

[Doc]

$10 to upgrade if you buy a new Mac.

[Lux Interior]

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

[ajakeski]

And it's 64 bit!
I seem to remember a lot of 64 bit hubbub back in the early days of the G5.

[Acer]

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?

[RAMd®d]

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.

[john-o]

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?

[RAMd®d]

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.

[guitarist]

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?