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Apple Announces August 28th Availability of Snow Leopard
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Good deal I guess but it is against the licensing agreement of the OS. You must all reside in the same household.
Stealing it more like. Unless you live in the same household as your colleague, you are not able to use a Family pack license.
I'm normally the first to whine about pricing in the UK, but come on it's £25, how much is windows 7 going for, between £80 and £200 for the upgrade and between £150 and £229 for the retail box AFAIK, one thing I'll say for Apple is that their hardware can be on the expensive side at times, but their software is usually at a really competitive price.
OS-X 10.6.1 ~ Better to Wait?
I am as eager as anyone to upgrade to the Snow. But I am concerned about incompatible software, drivers, release bugs etc (despite testing). Would it be safer to wait for the next release of 10.06.01 with the first fixes? And for developers such as VMware to catch up. Or is this just unjustified paranoia (which is the worst kind)? Advice appreciated.
I am as eager as anyone to upgrade to the Snow. But I am concerned about incompatible software, drivers, release bugs etc (despite testing). Would it be safer to wait for the next release of 10.06.01 with the first fixes? And for developers such as VMware to catch up. Or is this just unjustified paranoia (which is the worst kind)? Advice appreciated.
If you buy a mac after the 28th will snow leopard come pre installed or do you still need to buy it separately?
I might not be looking in the right place on Apple's site, but is it possible to buy the whole system by itself? Not the upgrade disk and then not with iLife/iWork?
Reason being, I don't want to upgrade, I want a clean install of Snow Leopard in one fell swoop (like every other OS release), and I already have iLife and iWork 09 (so no reason for the Box Set). Will this be possible?
Also, for future reinstalls of my OS, I feel it absolutely unneccessary to have to install Leopard and then upgrade, and have to do that the few times a year I reinstall my OS.
I was pretty pumped to get SL, but if I won't be allowed to do that then I'll definitely be waiting.
Reason being, I don't want to upgrade, I want a clean install of Snow Leopard in one fell swoop (like every other OS release), and I already have iLife and iWork 09 (so no reason for the Box Set). Will this be possible?
Also, for future reinstalls of my OS, I feel it absolutely unneccessary to have to install Leopard and then upgrade, and have to do that the few times a year I reinstall my OS.
I was pretty pumped to get SL, but if I won't be allowed to do that then I'll definitely be waiting.
Thanks jholzner and Sky Blue for bringing up the EULA about that. 
I guess I was too excited about it to even thinking about the EULA about it.
Broke the news to her and she offered to buy me a SL since she said school is starting for me and I wont be working much to make money, but I declined.
I guess I was too excited about it to even thinking about the EULA about it.
Broke the news to her and she offered to buy me a SL since she said school is starting for me and I wont be working much to make money, but I declined.
If you use specific software that you need I'd wait a week or two to make sure it all works.
I doubt I'll be upgrading till about 10.6.2, or whenever Digidesign say Pro Tools will work, but such is life
The 64 bit kernal will only be activated by default on the Xserve computers only as they are less likely to have old/random hardware connected them (amongst other factors). All other machines will boot up to the 32 bit kernal which will (should) work fine with older 32 bit drivers/software installed on them. Mainly the Apple applications are being switched to 64 bit, which can run in 64 bit regardless of the 32 bit kernal (don't ask me why), and I've read that the apps can also be switched to 32 bit compatibility from their info screens.
Just like Peace said, it may or may not. But on their site, it says that if you bought your macbook after June 8th (errr something like that) you can get the upgrade for $9.95.
I'm shocked, I just pulled up an old BBC article that showed the prices I quoted, maybe they're learning from the Vista fiasco, although they should just do one flavor of OS instead of six (granted it looks like the OS includes both 32 and 64 bit versions when you buy it which is an improvement).
Legally, yes. But I am asking in the technical sense. There's no 5 keys, just a disc right? Just the licensing is different.
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Well this is good news. I just wish Apple would update my shipping info for the up-to-date disk.
Just buy the upgrade for $29 and use the "erase and install" option - now located in the "disk utility" - available during the install routine.
https://www.macrumors.com/2009/08/12/os-x-snow-leopard-installation-process-changes-described/
LOL it makes sense, but I'm totally spending time with Leopard. I spend time with my wife every night.
So non-apple applications can be 32 or 64 bit. And they can wait to upgrade with the use of GCD etc.?