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Amazon Begins Accepting Pre-Orders for Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Inspiratron said:
This is also the reason I might have to get the boxed pack... I ALWAYS do a clean install, and it would be a pain to have to reinstall Leopard, then Snow Leopard...
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So many people get this wrong every time a new version of Mac OS X comes out. The upgrade DVD will allow you to do a full erase, format and install. You do not need to first do a clean install of Leopard then install Snow Leopard.

Once SL sees the install of Leopard then you go into Disk Utility and you can fully erase the HDD and begin a clean install of Snow Leopard. The only difference between the upgrade DVD and the full version is if you install a new drive on your Mac you will have to install Leopard first then Snow Leopard.
 
11800506 said:
I borrowed a friends upgrade disk once to put Leopard on my eMac and if I remember correctly you could do an erase and install from the disk. It was exactly the same as a retail copy, only it said on it that it was an upgrade copy. So I would think that Snow Leopard will be no different, and would allow you to do an erase and install from that disk.
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AFAIK, there was no Leopard upgrade. Are you talking about the gray discs?
 
John.B said:
By pony express?

Amazon's 5-7 day free shipping involves on them literally sitting on the order for business 5 days before sending it out USPS or ground shipping.
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In my experience Super Saver Shipping is nearly always almost as fast as regular shipping.
 
Maybe you'll have to have Leopard installed for the SL installer to detect, but you'll be able to do an erase and install.
 
brad.c said:
So instead of install-delete, it would be install-overwrite-compress?

For $29 bucks, I won't complain for the first few installations. But I still think it warrants a cool visualization complete with sucking audio effects.
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Maybe we'd have the sounds if this were the late 1990s. Apple was, IMO, more fun and "out there" then.
 
If Snow Leopard@29 USD will require Leopard to be installed I will do so, but only once, because after upgrading my Mac to Snow Leopard I will do a Time Machine Backup. That's it ;)
 
No tax and no shipping, I was planning on ordering from Apple to get it the day of the release, but with that deal I'll go with amazon too.
 
Question: what`s going to happen to my windows partition when I upgrade to SL?
 
I've already pre-ordered from Apple via the Hardware Up-To-Date program... hoping this will be the retail disc and NOT a proprietary MacBook Pro 13" install disc...

Has anyone had experience with previous up-to-date programs?
 
Mueslimonster said:
I remember from my Windows days, using one of the uprade discs, that it simply asked for your original CD, checked whether it was valid and then you could proceed to do a clean install with the upgrade disc without having to install the previous version.
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That is what I think will happen. Even today, and whenever I upgrade MS Office installations and get prompted for any previous installations of Office, I use the discs from Office 98 or the first X version. Same thing with Adobe upgrades.

If Apple thinks the user should physically install 10.5 and then proceed to upgrade to 10.6, hmmm ... something must be insanely WRONG at Cupertino! There are still many Intel-based Macs running 10.4, for whatever reason.
 
Sebby said:
I thought TM only does a backup of user files?
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No, full system backup, so no need to install Leopard and after that Snow Leopard, just restore system from Time Machine. Time Machine saved me more times than I care to think about.
 
brad.c said:
I used to pull ram from the old Quadras just for the car-crash sound.
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He he. :D. I'm going to either find a Quadra and do that or find the sound somewhere.

Remember the Barenaked Ladies videos that were included with OS 7.x-8.x install disks?
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No, actually, I don't. I've only been a Mac person since Leopard, but I've got machines running Tiger and OS 9.
 
benborman said:
I've already pre-ordered from Apple via the Hardware Up-To-Date program... hoping this will be the retail disc and NOT a proprietary MacBook Pro 13" install disc...

Has anyone had experience with previous up-to-date programs?
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I've been tryng to pre-order via the Hardware Up-To-Date program (I bought a 13" mbp) but no luck. It points be to a page that tells me I have nothing in my cart.
 
benborman said:
I've already pre-ordered from Apple via the Hardware Up-To-Date program... hoping this will be the retail disc and NOT a proprietary MacBook Pro 13" install disc...

Has anyone had experience with previous up-to-date programs?
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I did with Leopard. I can't completely remember, but I'm fairly sure it had to have Tiger installed. It wasn't a retail disc. No box or anything, just a DVD in a jiffypak.
 
Too bad Tiger users need to buy the Box Set. I hope that changes. Maybe it's necessary (for many people) because previous iLife versions can't be used with Leopard/Snow Leopard--but I don't think that's the case. I think my own iLife is old, and still working with Leopard. (Maybe not with Snow Leopard though?)

Can Tiger users buy Leopard right now, and then get Snow Leopard for $10? I don't see up-to-date applying unless you buy hardware, so maybe that avenue is closed. (Amazon has Leopard for $100, so that plus $10 up-to-date would be great if it were possible.)

So--worst case for Tiger users--buy Leopard now for $100, then Snow Leopard for $30? Thus avoiding the extra $40 for iLife/iWork if they don't want it? (Not that it isn't a great price if you DO want it.)
 
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