I guess it depends on if they treat Snow Leopard as a full separate release or just an upgrade. From the pricing it sounds like it's just an upgrade to 10.5 so they might go the upgrade route. At the same time, it adds complexity down the road. If you're doing a fresh install you have to install the old OS just to install the upgrade, which is a waste of time and you have to keep track of your old disks just in case. That's not the Apple way. I guess we'll find out in September.
CB Brent Harding wrote: > I suppose then from now out every time you reinstall, you will need > both disks. I wonder what happens whenever the next one comes out, > install leopard, then Snow Leopard, then whatever? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Chris Blouch <mailto:cblo...@aol.com> > *To:* macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:11 PM > *Subject:* Re: Pricing on Snow Leopard > > 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: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Misch >>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:42 PM >>>> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> 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" <s.how...@verizon.net> >>>>> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>>>> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
