{"id":390,"date":"2009-08-27T16:15:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T06:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=390"},"modified":"2009-08-28T12:37:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T02:37:26","slug":"best-way-to-upgrade-to-snow-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2009\/08\/best-way-to-upgrade-to-snow-leopard\/","title":{"rendered":"Best way to upgrade to Snow Leopard?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard<\/a>” comes out tomorrow, which leaves me in something of a financial quandary.<\/p>\n

The base “upgrade” package<\/a> will go for A$39. The Apple website says that this SKU is appropriate for users of 10.5, while 10.4 users (that would be me) would be better served picking up the Mac Box Set<\/a>. This package includes iLife and iWork (A$129 each) as well as the OS for a total of A$229. This is a good deal, but still $190 more expensive than the OS on its own.<\/p>\n

Wired suggests that the $39 box will probably work on a clean hard drive<\/a>, and I don’t see a technical reason for it not to work, so I’m pretty confident that using 10.4 is not the barrier that Apple’s marketing implies.<\/p>\n

The complication is that while I use iLife only occasionally, iWork is my productivity suite of choice (Open Office and variants being too slow) and I am fairly certain that the ol’ version of iWork that I bought will not be compatible. Even if it is, I’m probably due for an upgrade.<\/p>\n

So, purchased separately, the components of the Mac Box Set cost a total of $297. That makes it a saving of almost $70. I guess the question is really how much do I want iLife?<\/p>\n

[Update<\/strong>: Lifehacker has confirmed<\/a> that the $39 “upgrade” disk will install clean for anyone, so it’s a valid upgrade for users with 10.4. Now I need to figure out whether I need to buy iWork (and maybe iLife) later, or just go whole hog.]<\/p>\n

[Update 2<\/strong>: While the above works, it’s a violation of the EULA<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“If you have purchased an Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard license, then subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer as long as that computer has a properly licensed copy of Mac OS X Leopard already installed on it.”<\/p>\n

Seeing as I’m going to fork out for it anyway, I might as well go whole hog. Dilemma resolved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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