Cinnie said:

$29 bucks for an upgrade CD

$170 bucks for the stand-alone install. They will both do an 'upgrade' from Leopard if it's the OS on your system.

Basically, click the install, enter your password, walk away for 40 minutes, and voila. Very easy.

Imago said:

I'm running 10.4

Cinnie said:

damn
You'd have to install 10.5 then 10.6 or pay the full $170

In my opinion it's not worth the full $170. There wasn't anything wrong with 10.4.

Albeit, if you're on an Intel based mac, you *will* notice an improvement in speed.

PPCs are SOL. 10.6 doesn't install on those.

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[Edited 8/30/09 22:50pm]

Imago said:

It is an intel-based mac

Imago said:

Best Buy has it online for $25: http://www.bestbuy.com/si...pe=product

Note that the Mac has to be an Intel machine, so the existing OS will be either Tiger 10.4.X or Leopard 10.5.X. The higher priced upgrade is for Tiger systems that do not have iLife (Garage Band, iWeb, iDVD etc) plus it comes with iWork.

Also, if you have a Mac bought after June 8, 2009, the price for the upgrade is $9.99 from Apple.

squirrelgrease said:

I heard some later model 2008 macbooks will receive multi-touch trackpad functionality with this upgrade. Is that true?

My macbook must have been before that time cause my trackpad behaves the same.

Imago said:

what the hell circus animal do you call this OS?

Imago said:

The 2008 Macbook Pro, Unibody or Air has to have the three finger Multi-Touch trackpad (which have the iPod Touch chip built in). Snow Leopard allows these models to be four finger capable. Plastic Macbooks didn't have this three finger pad.

I said "four finger".

Cinnie said:

srsly Mac daddies?

Cinnie said:

Snow Leopard. Meeeoooowww.

squirrelgrease said:

nah i mean this ancient OS X schitt 10.4

it has a name

Cinnie said:

10.6 is Snow Leopard. 10.5 was Leopard. 10.4 was Tiger. 10.3 was Panther. 10.2 was Jaguar. 10.1 was Puma. 10.0 was Cheetah.

10.7 is rumored to be named Sabertooth.

Cinnie said:

what was system 7 called?

ZombieKitten said:

Believe it or not "Big Bang".

squirrelgrease said:

those were the days!

ZombieKitten said:

I remember 'em well. System software under 3mb.

squirrelgrease said:

my HD was 80mb and I had 10mb of RAM, I had a SUPERCOMPUTER!!!!

Imago said:

Reports are that he can just install Snow Leopard. Either way, it's worth it. Leopard itself was a huge jump from Tiger. Cinnie, you should upgrade when you can.

AlexdeParis said:

If I can save $150 though, I will. (Think of how many records that would be)

AlexdeParis said:[quote]

Imago said:

It won't work on my G5?
(mac pre-intel)
[Edited 8/31/09 9:43am]

Graycap23 said:

No.

Cinnie said:

Like I said, people are saying you can install Snow Leopard without having Leopard. That would make it just $29.

AlexdeParis said:

oh, okay i wasn't quite sure that's exactly what you meant. thanks

I can't wait to get this fuckery.

And since there's a Mac thread around. Does anyone know of a good application to program in C language? Does XCode work for this?

I found this:

http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/start

Apparently aMSN and Matlab are fucking up

Alej said:

MSN works fine for me

I don't know what matlab is though.

Imago said:

Do you have Microsoft's MSN?

I use aMSN because Microsoft's shitty ass messenger wouldn't let me add emoticons

Matlab is this math software I'll have to see about getting the previous version, which is working.

Alej said:

oooohhhhh

No, it's MSN messenger


I'm only on it cause 2 people I know refuse to use skype.

I end up with yahoo, skype, msn and goddamned shitty aol messenger because of these yahoos. I've just given up contact them

Alej,

This is very important. It's ok to blame A-MSN or Ota-Math or whatever. But they're probably not working because they're not good enough for your Mac.

Whatever you do, never ever blame your mac.