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POLL: What are you gonna do when Snow Leopard comes out

Upgrade or Box Set?

  • $29 upgrade - It's worth keeping a Leopard disk around for installs

    Votes: 170 95.0%

  • $169 Box Set - I don't want to deal with Leopard anymore

    Votes: 9 5.0%
  • Total voters
    179
dyn said:
Could one get around this part of the install by putting the target Mac into target disk mode and have the installer run on a Mac with Leopard and have it Snow Leopard install on the disk in target disk mode? My logic tells me that should work.
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That's one way of getting round it, it should work fine. :)
 
OllyW said:
That's one way of getting round it, it should work fine. :)
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So this means that I can install SL on a new HD while having Leopard on another HD? I want to upgrade my MBP's 160GB HD to a 320GB and am planning to get this HD and follow these instructions with this accessory.

I still want to transfer my user data from Leopard to SL but still want a clean install of the OS. This should be possible with the $29 upgrade right?
 
I voted for the $29 option obviously because it's a whole lot cheaper, and I see no reason of why I wouldn't be keeping my Leopard disks - it's not like it will cost me money to keep them. Besides, I already have iWork 09, so I really wouldn't need another one.
 
pdjudd said:
No. Apple does not distribute it's Operating systems commercially via download. For the vast majority of consumers, downloading a 4 gig file is not as feasible as having it delivered or purchased at retail. Another thing, the download would have to be written to a CD anyway due to how the OS installers work - you can't install them if you boot off a hard drive.

Shipping a physic DVD is the most painless way to do it. Apple only offers downloads to developers who are part of the premium or select program or (I believe) if you are purchasing a volume license.

Really, downloading a 6+ gig download is very daunting for home users.
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And for developers, downloading is the best. Apples servers are quite fast, maxing out my 3.5MB/s connection it finished in under a half hour for 6GB
 
definitely $29

For me, it's definitely the $29 option. For the money I save, I can buy an inexpensive portable usb powered external drive and a copy of SuperDuper. Then I can make a clone of my Snow Leopard system to it. In an emergency, boot from the cloned backup. No need to have the full install disk around.
 
dyn said:
If you see what the Mac Box Set is for (upgrading old Macs to the newest OS X, iLife and iWork) then this is only ideal if you want to upgrade iLife and iWork as well. If you only want to upgrade OS X then the 29$ Snow Leopard upgrade license will do. The Mac Box Set price won't drop because it has iLife and iWork. If you would buy them seperately they would cost you more. So in fact you could say that OS X comes free with that box :)
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Thanks...
I have my macbook for nearly two years now and never used any of those iLife apps.
 
miniConvert said:
I'll be taking the upgrade, but doing an Archive & Install this time around as I already did simple upgrades from Tiger and I think to get the most benefit from Snow Leopard it's really going to need a clean install.
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good point! but can a archive-and-install be done with an upgrade? that would be ideal!
 
I voted for the $29 option, but actually I'm getting the $10 option, since I just bought a MacBook Pro. I already have iLife 09, and don't use iWork, so it definitely didn't make any sense to buy the $169 package.
 
Wait a second... Tiger had an upgrade disc? I don't remember that. I think all Mac OS X versions came as full installs (except maybe 10.1 to fix the horrible, horrible problems of 10.0).
 
I am probably going to feel stupid after asking this, but is the ilife and iwork being sold right now any different then the one with the box set snow leopard set thing?

also, what is this $9 upgrade thing? would my macbook i got on june 25th be able to have a $9 uprade?
 
gillboyswims96 said:
I am probably going to feel stupid after asking this, but is the ilife and iwork being sold right now any different then the one with the box set snow leopard set thing?

also, what is this $9 upgrade thing? would my macbook i got on june 25th be able to have a $9 uprade?
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As to your first question, I don't think it's any different.

As to the second question, yes, your MacBook should qualify:

Up to Date Program
 
TheSpaz said:
Wait a second... Tiger had an upgrade disc? I don't remember that. I think all Mac OS X versions came as full installs (except maybe 10.1 to fix the horrible, horrible problems of 10.0).
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The Drop-In DVDs and the disks issued on the up-to-date program are upgrade disks.

They run a program when you boot from the DVD which checks if the qualifying OS is on the machine you are upgrading. Once the check has passed, the install options are exactly the same as a normal retail disk.
 
No reason to spend the extra money in anticipation of the unlikely event that I have to insert the Leopard disk again. I have several copies of Leopard, so one should always be handy, should the event occur. Of course, if you have to do a full install of Leopard before you install SL, I might change my mind.
 
Do i really need to buy the box set?
i only have 2 mac's at home but the other one isn't mine, it's my dad's iMac.

can't i just buy the $29? and upgrade both??

both has leopard installed.
 
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