N00b question on Tiger --> Snow Leopard upgrade (and iLife)

[radicaldog]

I'm still running 10.4.11 on my late 2007 BlackBook. If I do a clean install using just the cheap Snow Leopard upgrade disk will I have iPhoto etc. or do I need to buy iLife?

Also, could you please recommend an idiot-proof, step-by-step guide to formatting the HD and installing Snow Leopard from scratch with the upgrade disk?

 

[spinnerlys]

The 25€ SL Upgrade DVD does not contain any iLife products, that's what the Mac Box Set at store.apple.com is for.

Idiot proof guides can be found either via that big www search engine or MRoogle, as your questions come up every once in a while and have thus been answered.

 

[radicaldog]

Idiot proof guides can be found either via that big www search engine or MRoogle, as your questions come up every once in a while and have thus been answered.

Yes, but I asked for a recommended idiot-proof guide, not just whatever guide(s) Google throws up -- I did find a few of those, but which one should I trust the most?

As for iLife, well, I'd buy it but I don't want iWork. In fact Picasa is probably all I need for photos, since I don't do video and music stuff anyway. Unless there's some very good reason not to use Picasa I don't know about?

 

[farmermac]

Picasa is better the iPhoto IMO. It doesn't reorganize your photos, copy them into it's own directory, and picasa searches directory names when you search by keywords.

 

[Steve-M]

A clean install of Snow Leopard is quite easy R.D. Presuming you have backed up everything you want to keep, documents, music, ect. Insert the upgrade disk into your drive, reboot, hold down the option key at boot time, and select the install disk to boot from. Once your booted, select Disk Utility from the top menu, find your hard drive in Disk Utility, and erase it. Close Disk Utility, continue with the install process, select your hard drive as the install location, sit back and wait for it to finish.

 

[CylonGlitch]

Picasa is better the iPhoto IMO. It doesn't reorganize your photos, copy them into it's own directory, and picasa searches directory names when you search by keywords.

Why NOT to use Picasa :

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

In other words, Google can use your images without your permission for ANYTHING, make money off of it, and pay you NOTHING. If you put pictures of your kids up there, they can sell it to advertising and more and there is nothing you can do about it. EVEN if you remove the image, they still have the rights to use it.