Serial ## to upgrade Tiger to Leopard?

[eclipse]

Hi all,
I'm tidying the office and am looking through my old Tiger packs... and can't seem to see where the Licence number is. Do I need a licence number when I upgrade to Tiger, or is it just a standard purchase price for all?
(I'm in Australia.)

 

[Nermal]

Nope, there's no serial or licence number. Any retail boxed version of Leopard will allow you to upgrade or install on a fresh system.

 

[eclipse]

So it's the standard price as well? No discount for being a loyal Mac loving user for many, many years?

 

[edesignuk]

Nope, 1 price for all...unless you can get EDU discount.

 

[cc bcc]

So it's the standard price as well? No discount for being a loyal Mac loving user for many, many years?

OS X never had upgrade prices, you must have noticed that in those many many years.

 

[robbieduncan]

OS X never had upgrade prices, you must have noticed that in those many many years.

OSX has always been at upgrade price: there is no "full price". The retail copy is only licensed to install on a Mac. As it's a Mac it must already have a copy of Mac OS on it...

 

[cc bcc]

^ That's a never ending discussion. Does the EULA demand you have an earlier version of OS X? Nope. Does it check for a previous install? No. The retail version doesn't.

I've once had an upgrade version of OS X, I believe 10.3. The G5 I had ordered at the time came with 10.2 but I recieved a free upgrade. The install disk checked if 10.2 was installed, only then would it continue with installing 10.3. I know this, because right before installing 10.3 I decided to wipe my harddrive. 10.3 wouldn't install so I had to install 10.2 again...

That's what I call an upgrade version. The retail one is different, so I can't call that an upgrade version. The name is taken. IMHO that is.

 

[Nermal]

^ That's a never ending discussion. Does the EULA demand you have an earlier version of OS X? Nope. Does it check for a previous install? No. The retail version doesn't.

I challenge you to install an unmodified copy of Mac OS on a system that's never had it before.

 

[stainlessliquid]

Yes, technically it already is at the "upgrade price"

 

[velocityg4]

OS X never had upgrade prices, you must have noticed that in those many many years.

What about from 10.0 to 10.1 as I recall (actually I am looking at the cd right now) Apple had upgrade discs for early adopters. I think this was the only time for a lower upgrade price.