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    Snow Leopard for Tiger users

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Estelio, Aug 21, 2009.

  1. Estelio

    Estelio Notebook Guru

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    Alright, Apple currently says this about Snow Leopard:

    Pricing & Availability
    Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade to Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard in September 2009 through the Apple Store® ( www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. The Snow Leopard single user license will be available for a suggested retail price of $29 (US) and the Snow Leopard Family Pack, a single household, five-user license, will be available for a suggested price of $49 (US).

    For Tiger® users with an Intel-based Mac, the Mac Box Set includes Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iLife® ’09 and iWork® ’09 and will be available for a suggested price of $169 (US) and a Family Pack is available for a suggested price of $229 (US).

    My questions is:
    Does anyone know if I (a Tiger user) can just purchase the $29 upgrade and have a perfectly clean pure running version of 10.6? Is the only reason for purchasing the Box Set to get iLife/iWork 09? Honestly, I don't need iLife 09 and I already have iWork 09. I'd prefer to save the money and just get the upgrade.

    Does anyone know if this will work. Is Apple just trying to trick me into paying $169 for a Box Set when it's not 100% necessary?
     
    Estelio, Aug 21, 2009
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  2. Seshan

    Seshan Rawrrr!

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    No you can't. Like you posted the $29 upgrade is only for 10.5 users.
     
    Seshan, Aug 21, 2009
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