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Mac OS X Leopard Upgrade Options

Has any students from Australia been able to order Leopard at the 'old education price' through their university?
 
New Mac user - Leopard Upgrade?

My new macbook will arrive tomorrow. I am very excited. I know I jumped the gun on purchasing my mac before they ship with leopard installed. I am going to get the 10$ upgrade to leopard next week. I have read that there are different editions with features ommitted. What edition will my 10$ upgrade include? Is it just the basic or what?? ps how do i start a new thred or post so people can respond exclusively to this question? any help is appreciated thanks!
 
jasbird said:
My new macbook will arrive tomorrow. I am very excited. I know I jumped the gun on purchasing my mac before they ship with leopard installed. I am going to get the 10$ upgrade to leopard next week. I have read that there are different editions with features ommitted. What edition will my 10$ upgrade include? Is it just the basic or what?? ps how do i start a new thred or post so people can respond exclusively to this question? any help is appreciated thanks!
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It's not windows, there is just one version with all the features (and a server version).
You can start a new thread with the "New Thread" button on the upper left corner in a forum.
 
beez1717 said:
what apple is really doing is this: "You still baught a computer within the month in which we said our new OS was coming out? For being so dumb why don't we make you feel better by allowing you to upgrade: all you have to do is pay around $6.00 to correct your stupidity"
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it's not dumb to buy a new computer with tiger and pay $10 for the upgrade. the full version of leopard. it's the best of both worlds. if i bought it with leopard installed and some of my professional programs didn't work properly, i'm screwed. this way i have a stable os system and when i know leopard is working with these programs, i can install it then.:)
 
thewhitehart said:
So, just for hypothetical purposes, would it be wise to buy a new macbook with Tiger, get the Leopard Upgrade for 10 bucks, and instead use the leopard upgrade DVD to update an old imac instead of the macbook? In other words, would the Leopard upgrade DVD work on the imac if one didn't install it on the macbook? :)
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This worked for for the Tiger up-to-date disk. It wasn't locked to a particular machine. As for if it works for Leopard this remains to be seen, I suspect however that it will.
 
baummer said:
Most UC bookstores will ask you for your student/staff ID before you can purchase it. Otherwise, they cannot sell you the item.
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Funny you say that because it looks like you're in Riverside, and when I worked at UC Riverside the one thing I noted was that the University Bookstore *never* asked me for ID when I was buying Apple stuff. That was a few years ago however!
 
valypan said:
I am from Europe and it's really interesting to read how some of you guys can get Leopard for the old edu price, but apparently only if your uni supports and resells Mac os X? That is totally ridiculous as this discrimates students going to large schools vs students going to local/smaller schools. How is this even remotely fair? And what about some of you who called Apple directly and got the price dropped? How did that work exactly? Any info appreciated
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It shouldn't come as a surprise that Denmark and the US have different values with respect to such issues.

Of course, to be fair, one could conjecture that Apple Stores run a higher risk of falling victim to false ID fraud, whereas university computer stores can verify student status much more securely.
 
I can shut up now

If in doubt, just try ordering through the Mac up to date link - after trying it, it worked and I got the upgrade for 9.95
 
sorry if this has been asked before, but...
i bought a new MBP on sept 16... apple states you can upgrade for $10 if purchased after oct 1. any chance they'd offer some sort of discount for people who bought a computer another two weeks before?
 
mdwsta4 said:
sorry if this has been asked before, but...
i bought a new MBP on sept 16... apple states you can upgrade for $10 if purchased after oct 1. any chance they'd offer some sort of discount for people who bought a computer another two weeks before?
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Very likely. Go to Apple's up-to-date page, type in your serial number, and see if you qualify.

-Squire
 
Leopard works Great!

Just got my UTD disks and installed Leopard in 10 minutes on my new iMac. I backed up everything and then popped in the Leopard DVD and went to Disk Utility and did an erase, reformat and then installed Leopard. I removed all the languages and OS X installed in under 10 minutes. Stacks is smooth with no stuttering and everything runs much quicker. I suggest to anyone upgrading to use Disk Utility to erase, reformat and install and don't install those unnecessary languages and it should install fast. I think most issues are happening from Archive and Install or upgrading. Clean install also eliminates Spotlights endless indexing.
So far so good, no issues, everything works.:D
 
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