Tiger to Leopard?

shifty_uk · 13 Dec 2009 at 13:53

Having decided against upgrading before due to all the awful reviews and wireless related issues I've finally decided to bite the bullet and give it a go.

I've done a search and everyone seems to encounter the same problems at some point but has Apple released any decent fixes? Particularly with the wireless?

Is there any issues running previous versions of Adobe Creative Suite(cs2) and other software?

Thanks.

dangerstat · 13 Dec 2009 at 16:51

I'd be wary of the cost, I was quoted around £120 to upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard. I almost fainted!

Feek · 13 Dec 2009 at 16:57

dangerstat said:
I'd be wary of the cost, I was quoted around £120 to upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard. I almost fainted!

Yes, that's the ONLY way to do it officially. The upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard is £25 but if you want to upgrade from Tiger then the only way to do it within the terms of the software licence is to buy the Mac Box Set at £129 which is actually a good price considering what you get.

Irish_Tom · 14 Dec 2009 at 12:00

I've upgraded two Mac Pros (1,1) at work from Tiger to Snow Leopard.

The only issue we've run into is the RadeonX1900 drivers in SL seem to be a bit buggy.

For some reason the fan-controller doesn't work properly and it was causing artefacts. We installed SMC Fan Control, boosted the minimum RPM and it's now working perfectly.

Panzer

shifty_uk · 14 Dec 2009 at 12:28

dangerstat said:
I'd be wary of the cost, I was quoted around £120 to upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard. I almost fainted!

What???!

I was under the impression that(like windows) you simply bought the OS(Snow Leopard) priced at £25 and ran the installer. Jeez, another rip off from Apple.

Or, perhaps I'm just the idiot for not looking into this further.

LordSplodge · 14 Dec 2009 at 15:12

shifty_uk said:
What???!

I was under the impression that(like windows) you simply bought the OS(Snow Leopard) priced at £25 and ran the installer. Jeez, another rip off from Apple.

Or, perhaps I'm just the idiot for not looking into this further.

The £25 option is an upgrade form Leopard (it is actually a full SL disk though) the Mac Box Set comes with iLife '09 and a full SL license so is not a rip off at all.

PardonTheWait · 14 Dec 2009 at 17:07

Just get the snow leopard disk, it will work from a completely blank machine. You don't need anything at all installed first.

ringo747 · 30 Dec 2009 at 18:08

PardonTheWait said:
Just get the snow leopard disk, it will work from a completely blank machine. You don't need anything at all installed first.

I got my snow leopard disk today and want to install from Tiger. Went for the cheap version but the guys in shop were trying to get me to buy the £179 family pack. I said if you start from a blank harddisk how does it work then? He replied, "you will still find that it is buggy". What a load of tush!

Anyways, I need to know does this new snow leopard disk include iLife 09? I don't care about iWork. If not then I can probably grab it from my gf's leopard disk.

Cybertronic · 30 Dec 2009 at 18:24

The Snow Leopard disk only includes the operating system itself, nothing else except for Xcode

Feek · 30 Dec 2009 at 18:25

No it doesn't. If you'd bought the pack then you'd have got iWork '09 and iLife '09.

You're running Snow Leopard unlicensed. There's no way for anyone to know about it, and I doubt anyone really cares but that's the fact.

ringo747 · 30 Dec 2009 at 18:26

Cybertronic said:
The Snow Leopard disk only includes the operating system itself, nothing else

Cool thanks. Now to getting all my stuff backed up before wiping the disk. Not fun!

ringo747 · 30 Dec 2009 at 18:29

Feek said:
No it doesn't. If you'd bought the pack then you'd have got iWork '09 and iLife '09.

If I have an old leopard disk can I use it to install iLife 09?

Feek · 30 Dec 2009 at 18:32

On both of my Macs, iLife comes on a separate disk that will only work on the original system.

ringo747 · 30 Dec 2009 at 18:40

Feek said:
On both of my Macs, iLife comes on a separate disk that will only work on the original system.

Hmm, ok. Maybe I could use the old leopard disk to upgrade to it first, then update to SL, that was keeping iLife 09. If iLife 09 only works on the one machine then im screwed really.

Feek · 30 Dec 2009 at 18:50

That's why the £179 pack is the official way to do it, you get the lot and it's significantly cheaper than buying them all individually *shrug*

ringo747 · 30 Dec 2009 at 18:54

O well, will see what happens. Thanks for info.

unknowndomain · 30 Dec 2009 at 20:52

Feek said:
That's why the £179 pack is the official way to do it, you get the lot and it's significantly cheaper than buying them all individually *shrug*

ringo747 said:
O well, will see what happens. Thanks for info.

You basically paid the shop £25 to help you steal the software which you could have just downloaded for free and it would still be just as illegal.

PardonTheWait · 30 Dec 2009 at 21:11

unknowndomain said:
You basically paid the shop £25 to help you steal the software which you could have just downloaded for free and it would still be just as illegal.

Well then they should make SL available as a full version for £85 then.

Be honest - you have the option to buy Snow Leopard and have it work for £25, and you have the option to buy Snow Leopard with two things you might already have or don't want for £139?

I know what I'd do.

unknowndomain · 30 Dec 2009 at 21:20

I would buy the £25 option because I bought the previous £89 upgrade from Tiger to Leopard.

Feek · 30 Dec 2009 at 21:27

unknowndomain said:
I would buy the £25 option because I bought the previous £89 upgrade from Tiger to Leopard.

Of course, because you're upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard, that's exactly the thing to do.

PardonTheWait said:
Be honest - you have the option to buy Snow Leopard and have it work for £25, and you have the option to buy Snow Leopard with two things you might already have or don't want for £139?

I have two Macs that had Leopard on them, I bought the Snow Leopard family pack upgrade. I didn't need to, but I thought that I'd rather be official. I could have just bought a single licence and upgraded them both from it.