Can I upgrade from tiger to snow leopard

[i-sidd]

Right now i have 10.4.11 on my almost 4 year old macbook. Can I buy the $29 Snow leopard disk and upgrade. Do i need to do a clean install. I am kinda noob in all this so kindly suggest if this can or cannot be done.

 

[robbieduncan]

Apple will tell you that you can't. Numerous (probably 100s) of theads on here will tell you that you can. You can. You don't have to do a clean install. Go for it.

 

[0007776]

Officially you aren't supposed to, but Apple didn't put anything on the disk that would stop you.

 

[i-sidd]

So should I just nuy the disk and then put it in the dvd drive and it will be a fairly easy install. I am worried that I might do something wrong and erase everything. i dont want to loose my pics, documents, music
etc

 

[robbieduncan]

So should I just nuy the disk and then put it in the dvd drive and it will be a fairly easy install. I am worried that I might do something wrong and erase everything. i dont want to loose my pics, documents, music
etc

Regardless of OS upgrades you should have a full backup of those. Hard drives are nothing like 100% reliable. It could fail at any time.

 

[Gregg2]

Apple will tell you that you can't.

Naw, just that they trusted people who don't own Leopard not to. Silly of them.