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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Shipping in September: $29 for Leopard Users
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no i guess it won't install on systems with tiger, the tiger system would have to be upgraded to Leopard, I guess
Nothing right now. I hope we see something though. The same with more ATI support.
Keep in mind that's $29 for an upgrade for Leopard users. I'd look more into the cost of a Windows license if I were you.
isn't the blackberry beating the iPhone?
doesn't Apple only have 7% of marketshare in laptops?
isn't #4 a little biased?
When I bought my 700mhz eMac in 2003, it came with 10.1 installed and an upgrade disc for 10.2. Basically, the upgrade disc required 10.1 to be installed before it would upgrade the system to 10.2.
Hopefully, the 10.6 will support some kind of clean install path, because having to complete an install of an older OS just to install a newer OS sucks.
Hopefully, the 10.6 will support some kind of clean install path, because having to complete an install of an older OS just to install a newer OS sucks.
Apple beats Windows 7 to market by a month.
Now if only it had been said that, "Oh... and by the way... you can install this on any computer with an Intel processor." Microsoft would have been quivering in their boots.
I was going to wait to upgrade for Snow Leopard, but for $29 what's the point? I'm liking what I've read about Snow Leopard from the Apple site, especially since I'd save an extra 6GB over Leopard. I might not rush to the Apple Store on day one to get it, plenty of other people here on Macrumors who will though, so they can be my guinea pigs for me, lol. But I will get it for sure within a few days of the release if Snow Leopard lives up to the hype. Hopefully, it can give Windows 7 a run for its money.
I doubt either will change. Snow Leopard will appeal to Apple customers and Windows 7 will appeal to PC users.
Microsoft has been getting much positive hype for Win7, and I'm sure Apple will get equally positive hype for Snow Leopard. Thus, both companies may "win" this time around.
Delusion <- right click this and select "Look up in Dictionary".
I don't know what world you live in, but the rest of the world uses Windows. And guess what: THEY DON'T CARE! They are not idiots either. And Microsoft isn't going anywere in the next 10 years.
Very, very doubtful. Microsoft still has the market share, and their "Laptop Hunters" ads have been very effective.
If anything, Apple is much more worried about Windows 7 than Microsoft is about Snow Leopard.
Apple tends to be in the Top 5 often, if not every time, for notebook vendor marketshare. What most people forget is that selling the most notebooks doesn't mean you're going to get close to what Microsoft licenses out to every other vendor.
Not to mention you still count toward Microsoft if you run Windows on your Mac. Oh snap!
Instant loss of Karma if you use an upgrade disk and don't own a legal copy of 10.5. That's the difference. Just like the difference between a Family Pack and a single user license: Instant loss of Karma when you install a single user version on more than one Macintosh.
I'm imagining that Vista Home Premium -> Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade will cost at least $99 retail, possibly $199 seeing some of the RRPs I've been seeing.
If I had bought a Vista machine in the past 2 years, I would be looking at my Mac friends getting their new OS for $29, and getting annoyed with paying more for the Windows 7 upgrade. Possibly annoyed enough to not buy a Windows machine next time round. Is this Apple being clever or a lucky coincidence?
Alternatively, Microsoft can offer Windows 7 upgrade for $29 or thereabouts to not seem so expensive, and thus lose a lot of revenue (although more would buy it if it was $29 - surely it's in their interest to move the entire market on from Vista!).
If you want to wipe your HDD and install Snow Leopard on a clean drive, you insert the SnowLeopard upgrade DVD, begin installing. It won't find Leopard so it'll ask you for the Leopard DVD. Insert it to verify, it'll eject it and ask to re-insert the SnowLeopard DVD.... and proceed the installation as usual.
... at least that's how I think it will work.
I completely agree. Since it's an upgrade disk, it won't have the entire OS on it... just what is required to upgrade software that is already installed on the machine. That is why they are selling it for only $29!! If you want to do a clean install, you would have to reinsert your original Leopard disk so that it could install parts of the OS that's not included on the SL upgrade. Once the base Leopard system is installed, it will reboot and ask for the SL UPGRADE disk to update Leopard.
so forking over 30 bucks will get me a disc with snow leopard??
is it upgrade or fresh install also, hope its not a microsoft thing
what if i get a new harddrive and need to install snow leopard?
is it upgrade or fresh install also, hope its not a microsoft thing
what if i get a new harddrive and need to install snow leopard?
From what I heard Apple is going to start a new program called Apple Genuine Advantage to help users stay legal. With Snow leopard I heard you enter a serial number and it helps you by automatically registering with Apple.
For upgrades you have to insert the first DVD then use the upgrade and AGA.
And if you need to re install you just need to call Apple and have them clear the serial number.
For upgrades you have to insert the first DVD then use the upgrade and AGA.
And if you need to re install you just need to call Apple and have them clear the serial number.
