Upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard

Schism

Schism

Schism

Associate
Joined
23 Dec 2007
Posts
279
Hello all :)

I've been looking for software for my Mac recently, and I've noticed that nearly all the latest versions of software require 1.5 (Leopard), which was beginning to annoy me so I looked at upgrading and found that the Snow Leopard discs are only £25. So then I googled to see whether it was possible, and it is, but apparently it breaks the EULA.

Has anyone tried it?

Cheers
 
I don't understand, upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard breaks the EULA? Do Apple expect you to go Tiger > Leopard > Snow Leopard? Seems bizarre to me...
 
Yep I bought the cheap £25 disk only for the guy at the till to tell me it won't work upgrading from Tiger. He says unless I have Leopard I need the £150(?) quid version.

I asked him if I wiped my HD and did a clean install how would it know what previous version I had. 'Hmm, ahhh, you need the £150 version'.

I went for the cheaper one and it worked fine.
 
ringo747 said:
Yep I bought the cheap £25 disk only for the guy at the till to tell me it won't work upgrading from Tiger. He says unless I have Leopard I need the £150(?) quid version.

I asked him if I wiped my HD and did a clean install how would it know what previous version I had. 'Hmm, ahhh, you need the £150 version'.

I went for the cheaper one and it worked fine.
Click to expand...

Yeah, it's £150 I think.

Good news then! I shall buy the £25 version. Doing crap like this only makes people want to illegally download it more. Idiots.
 
It's a licensing rather than 'will it work' issue.

Imagine Tiger was 100 quid, and then Leopard was 100 quid (I know they weren't, but bear with me) they were justified because T>L was considered a major upgrade to the OS.

Similar to XP -> Vista or Vista -> Win7

The Leopard->Snow Leopard update was offered at a reduced price simply because it was an optimised version of Leopard really wasn't it? Some new features, but mostly betterment of SL.

So if you go Leopard->SL you get the cheaper offering of the price

If you want to go Tiger -> SL you need the platform upgrade in the middle. I.e. Tiger to Leopard then cheap SL or you go for the retail release of SL which is the 100 quid plus platform.

It's not that unreasonable really is it?
 
RKO said:
That sounds like you are referencing iWork as opposed to iLife. iLife is Garageband, iDVD and iPhoto style apps.
Click to expand...

Haha, yeah you're right.

MacRS4 said:
It's a licensing rather than 'will it work' issue.

Imagine Tiger was 100 quid, and then Leopard was 100 quid (I know they weren't, but bear with me) they were justified because T>L was considered a major upgrade to the OS.

Similar to XP -> Vista or Vista -> Win7

The Leopard->Snow Leopard update was offered at a reduced price simply because it was an optimised version of Leopard really wasn't it? Some new features, but mostly betterment of SL.

So if you go Leopard->SL you get the cheaper offering of the price

If you want to go Tiger -> SL you need the platform upgrade in the middle. I.e. Tiger to Leopard then cheap SL or you go for the retail release of SL which is the 100 quid plus platform.

It's not that unreasonable really is it?
Click to expand...

At a £125 difference yes I think it is.

If it was £25 from Leopard to Snow Leopard and say £50-£70 from Tiger to Snow Leopard (or there abouts), then I wouldn't mind as much.
 
The £25 would be an upgrade 10.5 -> 10.6. Otherwise you're buying the full retail pack.
I bought my Snow Leopard 10.6 disc as a full retail copy from Apple on pre-order..

Also I think the box set of OSX+iLife.

I still use my Tiger iPhoto 6 which came with my MBP through 10.5 and 10.6 upgrades. My Mini has 10.6 and iPhoto 8? As the install set of discs.

I still use my MBP for all the personal stuff (iWork'09, MSOffice etc).. so I've not really used the '09 iLife bits lol.
 
Last edited:
It's really only a massive service pack thats why they couldn't / wouldn't charge the full retail price because really there werent many new features just a tonne of refined apps...thats why it is a £25 upgrade FROM Leopard.

Still I think the Snow Leopard / iWorks / iLife package is very good value to be honest!

:)
 
If it's too expensive, don't buy it?

I've never really understood buying something that from a licensing perspective is not valid. Why buy it at all? It's just a unlicensed as a bittorrent copy isn't it?
 
MacRS4 said:
If it's too expensive, don't buy it?

I've never really understood buying something that from a licensing perspective is not valid. Why buy it at all? It's just a unlicensed as a bittorrent copy isn't it?
Click to expand...

To be honest your post about the price comparisons from Tiger > Snow Leopard vs Leopard > Snow Leopard made perfect sense. Some people just like to complain.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom