In the past there have been upgrade CDs that check for an existing installation on the hard drive. I suspect they will do something like that.
CB Sean Tikkun wrote: > The 'low price' really isn't that low. iWork is $40, iLife is $40 and > the last couple upgrades have been $80 I think. Just shows that in > truth Apple products are very affordable! Sure you can buy a PC for > $600, but you Office is going to cost you enough to balance out the > difference of a mac! They are a hardware company, not a software > company. I expect it will be a full upgrade disc. > > > On Jun 17, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Dan Eickmeier wrote: > > >> Good questions Kevin, haven't really heard anything as of yet. With >> such a low price, i'd think it'd just be an upgrade disc, but not >> sure. Hard to say. >> On Jun 17, 2009, at 11:48 PM, Kevin Reeves wrote: >> >> >>> So how are they doing this? Is this gonna be an update pushed to the >>> leopard >>> machines after a purchase is made, or do you go to an apple store >>> and show >>> proof of purchase and get a retail copy. If you get a disk, will it >>> be a >>> full install, or just an upgrade disk, whereby you need leopard >>> first, much >>> like the windows disks. Just some random questions. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brandon Misch >>> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:42 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: Pricing on Snow Leopard >>> >>> >>> well, i'm sure the intel machines that use tiger will use leopard. >>> only power pc macs won't work. >>> >>> On Jun 16, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Brent Harding wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Wow, I like that they do the honor system with this. I hope people >>>> don't start abusing it and buying it for Tiger machines, but most of >>>> the stuff running Tiger probably won't support it anyways. >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Scott Howell" <[email protected]> >>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:08 AM >>>> Subject: Re: Pricing on Snow Leopard >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> You should contact Apple and register the machine with them. I may >>>>> be >>>>> wrong on this since I have not purchased a machine in this way, but >>>>> when you install the OS, you register and that info is updated. You >>>>> could call Apple Care at (1-800) 275-2273 and see if you can >>>>> register >>>>> it in your name. Either way, I don't think it will make any >>>>> difference. Either way, I would not be concerned about this because >>>>> of course once you get your copy of Snow Leopard, you would be >>>>> registering it in your name and there is as far as I can recall no >>>>> proof of purchase required when purchasing the upgrade. >>>>> >>>>> On Jun 15, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Brent Harding wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Oh, I thought I heard that it gets to be a problem with ones sold >>>>>> on >>>>>> Ebay because the machine itself might be registered in someone >>>>>> else's name. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
