Tiger to snow leopard upgrade!!!

[Dtorre]

so i've done a lot of research, and a vast majority of people are saying that if you install the $30 upgrade to snow leopard onto an intel based mac running Tiger, it works!

I have two questions regarding this...

Is it true!? because i don't want to waste $30 for nothing

Would i be able to run logic 9 after this upgrade?

my only goal is to run logic 9. I have no interest in any of the features that come with leopard or snow leopard

 

[spinnerlys]

Yes, technically it is possible. But it is against the EULA.

You will then be able to run Logic Pro 9.

 

[pdjudd]

Is it true!? because i don't want to waste $30 for nothing

Yes, but it is in violation of the SLA. If you want to keep it legal you need the Mac Box Set for Snow Leopard.

Would i be able to run logic 9 after this upgrade?

Yes.

 

[Dtorre]

Yes, but it is in violation of the SLA. If you want to keep it legal you need the Mac Box Set for Snow Leopard.


Yes.

does that mean i would not be able to update it?

 

[spinnerlys]

does that mean i would not be able to update it?

No. You will be able to update, there is no licensing involved with Mac OS X.

You just violate a text document called the EULA.

 

[Sun Baked]

If you get a warning after the update about the fonts asking if you want the OS to fix it now ... DO IT NOW. The I'll do it myself later button is a PIA method to recover from, unless Apple changed the popup after the initial release to repeat.

 

[dernhelm]

I've seen people indicate that it is against the EULA, but thankfully Apple doesn't enforce it. I say thankfully, not because I want to deprive Apple of any of my money, but because I myself ran into a situation - I had a hard drive failure 2 months after I upgraded my Tiger install to Leopard and Leopard to SL.

I own the Leopard family pack (Leopard + iLife + iWork), but have it for 2 PPC machines, and 1 Intel machine, so I bought just one SL license (rather than the whole SL FP). The SL machine lost it's harddrive, but once I got a new hard drive, I could simply install SL directly, because the installer assumes I'm honest and actually own the software legally - I didn't need to reinstall Leopard for no reason.

A lot of people tend to view this as a hole, I simply view it as Apple assuming I actually am honest, and not needing to verify it in annoying ways. That's corporate behavior I tend to want to reward.

 

[Gregg2]

A lot of people tend to view this as a hole, ....

...and many of them are crawling through it.

 

[Sean Dempsey]

It will phone-home back to apple and possible legal and criminal action will be taken against you. I know someone this happened to, and it is just not worth it.

 

[flopticalcube]

It will phone-home back to apple and possible legal and criminal action will be taken against you. I know someone this happened to, and it is just not worth it.

Fantasize much?

 

[bobr1952]

It will phone-home back to apple and possible legal and criminal action will be taken against you. I know someone this happened to, and it is just not worth it.

I'm told the line is direct to Steve.

 

[mrsir2009]

Yes, its true. And yes, you will be able to run Logic 9 PRO. Good lucK!