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Cheap Snow Leopard
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We agreed to differ on that one.
Let's just say that it's excellent value if you aren't already running iLife '08 and iWork '08 on Mac OS 10.4.11 and are perfectly happy with those two.
Well if someone wants iLife '09 and iWork '09, they can now pay £10 less and get Snow Leopard thrown in. :cool:0 -
Looks like I'll be ordering from Amazon... free postage too!0
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Can I run this on my PC?0
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Your guess is wrong: I've installed it and you notice the difference immediately. Everything is much snappier. That, alone makes it remarkably well worth the £25 price; even more so, the £40 price of the 5-user version.
That's excellent newsApple should be congratulated for having got so much right and Microsoft should be castigated for getting so much wrong.
Agreed - my point was just that this is a relatively minor upgrade. The price is probably about right, but historically Apple have charged much more than this for 'proper' new versions of the OS (when there have been more major upgrades, new features etc.) .
In reality £25 Snow Leopard is more of an update to Leopard than a whole new OS - you need to already have a mac with Leopard installed. That won't be the case with Windows 7 - you will (obviously providing you meet the system reqs) be able to install it on older machines, e.g. jump from XP or even Win2000 straight to Win 7.It's ironic that this means Microsoft can now extort so many times more money from its hapless users than Apple for getting its operating system to work properly.
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In reality £25 Snow Leopard is more of an update to Leopard than a whole new OS - you need to already have a mac with Leopard installed.
Sorry to quote myself - have just read reports that the £25 version of SL in fact will install on Macs running Tiger (even though Apple say that those running tiger must buy the Box Set). So I take back what I said.0 -
Sorry to quote myself - have just read reports that the £25 version of SL in fact will install on Macs running Tiger (even though Apple say that those running tiger must buy the Box Set). So I take back what I said.
and if you change your hard disk for a new one I feel like the day he died0 -
No, you don't need to buy a new hard drive if you don't want to. If you have adopted the sensible policy of keeping your system and your data in separate partitions, you can simply erase the volume in which your existing system currently resides and then do a clean install of Snow into that.
Obviously, though, it's best to employ an external drive (preferably two, with Firewire) to perform this manoeuvre.
But it does provide a good opportunity to renew your hard drive anyway, as a routine long-term safety precaution.
The way that I shall be installing it natively on our own Macs (one at a time) will be to remove their existing drives and put these into a Firewire 800 enclosure. Then put a new (larger capacity ) drive into the Mac. Run the (self-booting) Snow install DVD and instruct it to partition the new drive inside the Mac and put Snow into the first partition. Then, when the newly-installed Snow starts up for the first time it invites one to import one's stuff from another drive: so, select my old drive, now inside the enclosure and attached by Firewire 800 to the Mac, and let the new Snow system import it all from that.
(I know this works because I used the same method to put Snow on to an external hard drive for appraisal.)
One could, of course, allow it to import one's personalisations from one's Time Machine (even networked and even wirelessly - Apple employs some very bright people indeed!) but I feel happier and safer doing it from my previous system drive.
Although the install does tell you that you can always personalise it later, by means of Migration Assistant, it's important not to do that - always import your stuff at that point of the install. If you don't, the new Snow will create a new User folder for you. And that is a pain because doing this will then prevent Migration Assistant importing your old one at a later date because it has the same name.
There are ways around that but it all gets complex, so, it's far better to bite the bullet and import your personalisations at that stage of the install.
Bear in mind that if you go the route of erasing and re-formatting your existing volume containing a pre-Snow operating system this will erase everything on it - and that will include your Mail folder and your iTunes and other libraries!
As part of my afore-mentioned preference for keeping my data and my system in separate partitions, I have re-located my various iLife (and Aperture) libraries to my data partition (and I recommend that). However, iTunes works in a slightly different way and won't let you do this (well, I've never found a way to do it - even by using an alias): instead you need to create an "iTunes Music Folder" on the data partition and let that synch with the iTunes Library on the System partition.
WARNING - Only do these things if you fully understand what you are performing and under no circumstances ever erase a partition that contains files you haven't backed up!
All in all, it really is easier (and safer) to treat oneself to a new hard drive and install Snow straight on to that. :snow_grin
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