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Snow Leopard 10A435 reported to be GM
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why you have to be boring? Ok i downloaded the beta and tried it, i will buy the os... i just want to know if the release is identical, can you answer please? With all the money i've given to apple (and it's a LOT) i certainly don't feel guilty.
Nor should you. I don't think you did anything wrong (besides the whole beta NDA, EULA thing... but w/e). If you will indeed buy it, you're golden. If not, then that's another story.
I would like to know as well, without the holier than thou comments. I have the latest DP installed, yes I scooched it. I've already ordered the SL family pack - but unsure if I actually need to install it when I get it to be legit. And if I do, do I actually have to format and reinstall, or can I actually 'upgrade' from the DP to the retail?
If the DVD image for 432 is the same image which has been burnt to the shipping DVDs, then you will have exactly the same thing installed as you would with the final product.
The problem is, nobody knows what's on the shipping DVDs, because they haven't shipped yet. Assuming that 432 is the GM, then I can't see why Apple would change the image in any way - that would defeat the point in beta testing, since you'd be introducing potential bugs.
The problem is, nobody knows what's on the shipping DVDs, because they haven't shipped yet. Assuming that 432 is the GM, then I can't see why Apple would change the image in any way - that would defeat the point in beta testing, since you'd be introducing potential bugs.
Only reason I'm downloading SL and not buying - yet - is that I'd rather not have my pressed version be 10.6.0. Much rather have say 10.6.5 retail.
I am the guy that will run into the one minor bug during a Time Machine restore when booting from 10.6.0 media.
I am the guy that will run into the one minor bug during a Time Machine restore when booting from 10.6.0 media.
Yeah it's funny that, it's a shame (to my knowledge) there's no way to burn a slipstream copy of Mac OS X, like you can for Windows in order to add service packs to the installation disk.
I heard somewhere that Apple made the Snow Leopard installer smart. So if you had 10.6.6 installed and you only had the 10.6.0 install disc, it would actually reinstall the core 10.6.0 and keep the 10.6.6 stuff in place.
I wish I could find my source of this information, but I think I read it on Apple's site.
I'm starting to think that they mentioned it at the WWDC keynote. That's probably why I can't find it in writing.
They did say something like that. But it's only useful if you're installing it over your existing SL - why would you do that? Pretty unlikely.
In case something got corrupted and you couldn't boot your computer or something. Why is it unlikely? I've done it before.
No offense glossy but "BETA" software a company puts out falls under the same rules/laws that all IP does. If not even more regulated due to the exclusivity of the "BETA".
Really? So non-developers got their DVD image through Apple. No you say? Oh they got it off some unofficial website then. Did Apple approve this software distribution mechanism? No, so it is pirated.