Hi, I bet it may just be the full install disk of Snow Leopard when you buy the upgrade. What you are forgetting is that this is an Intel only version of the OS, so the number of Intel only Macs that shipped with Tiger compared to Leopard is relatively small. Not to mention those owners who already upgraded to Leopard reduce that number even more. I'm just speculating, but most people who have a mac that can run Snow Leopard, already have Leopard by definition.
Time will tell. --Scott At 6:00 PM -0400 6/18/09, Scott Howell wrote: When I purchased my copy of Leopard, it was a full copy and didn't care if I had Tiger installed. I think this version is going to be significant enough that an upgrade disk would be quite a surprise. It is in many ways a different os, if you will. On Jun 18, 2009, at 3:41 PM, 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: <mailto:cblo...@aol.com>Chris Blouch To: <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>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: <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [<mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brandon Misch Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 8:42 PM To: <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>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" <mailto:s.how...@verizon.net><s.how...@verizon.net> To: <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com><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. -- --Scott --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
