$30 Snow Leopard upgrade disc works with Tiger too
Happy times for Mac OSX Tiger users: the $30 Snow Leopard disc, intended for Leopard upgraders, will reportedly do a full update for OSX Tiger users too.
If you are still on Tiger, Apple wants you to shell out $170 for the Mac Box Set in order to upgrade to Snow Leopard. Leopard users are better off though, as a Snow Leopard upgrade disc will cost them only $30.
However, reports today say that the $30 Snow Leopard disc can do the same job for Tiger users as well, instead of the $170 Mac Box Set, containing the new operating system, iLife 09 and the iWork 09 productivity suite.
Although Snow Leopard works only with Intel-based Macs, those who bought the first generation Intel Macs in 2006 could still be running on Tiger. Recent estimates put this number at around 20 percent of the total of Mac users. So Apple asks $170 from Tiger users who haven’t updated to Leopard in 2007 and now want to make the switch to Snow Leopard.
Reports from Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal and Brian X Cheng of Wired confirm that the $30 Snow Leopard upgrade disc can also do a full update from Tiger, saving users $140. The only problem with this method is that it violates Apple’s end user license agreement (EULA), hence it is illegal.
However, Amazon has cut prices today on both the Snow Leopard upgrade disc and the Mac Box Set, which are now $25 (from $29) and $150 (from $170). In anticipation of the Friday Snow Leopard launch, Apple has also started sending out delivery notices to those who already pre-ordered the new operating system.
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Those multi-touch gestures are really annoying in Photoshop! Every time I do a gesture remotely similar to rotating, it keeps messing around with the orientation of the photo. I’ll give this one a try and see if it does the job…
I’ve downloaded this and changed the key commands but still have issues browsing the web with my type and page getting larger and smaller with a life of it’s own. How do I shut it off completely? Right now I set global commands to something different and it didn’t make a difference. Aargh! I hate it!
Are you using leopard or snow leopard? As in snow leopard you can now go into preferences and you can turn off the shortcut that irritate you from there.
In leopard I just did an overall key combination so it wouldn’t work in ANYTHING.
[…] When doing typical tasks such as browsing the Web or writing a document, there’s nothing more annoying than Apple’s new multi-touch gestures on the MacBook Pro trackpad. Until recently this was not a problem, as the undesired features could simply be turned off in the Preferences pane. However, after the release of the 10.5.6 OSX update, this option was removed, leaving many new Mac users in disarray . See more here: Stop the MacBook multi-touch trackpad having a life of its own […]
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