[RndTbl] OS X tips

[Mike Pfaiffer]

On 2009-12-16, at 10:02 PM, Dan Martin wrote:

> I was at the Apple store yesterday, asking about Snow Leopard.  I had understood earlier that it was an 'upgrade' from Leopard - but the guy in the store says it's a complete OS and has no previous requirements (except the firmware, I assume).

	As long as it is Intel then any version will work.

> So there is also one being sold for $200?

	Quick answer is yes. I gather the $200 version has more stuff to make up for what was apparently in 10.5 but not 10.4. Apart from that and the price I have no idea what the actual difference is. One person who replied later appears to have more info. Then again I'm looking at it from the perspective of being $160 I didn't have to spend.

> -Dan

				Later
				Mike



> On 16-Dec-09, at 9:10 PM, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
> 
>> 	Since OS X sort of qualifies as *NIX here goes...
>> 
>> 	When upgrading an Intel Mac from 10.4 to 10.6 I was able to skip 10.5 by using the $40 (after tax) upgrade package instead of the $200 complete package Apple wants 10.4 users to buy. It's been running for three or four days now with no serious problems. I just had to manually download newer versions of a couple of third party programs.
>> 
>> 	They've finally implemented something like the pager. They call it Open Spaces. By default it gives the user four virtual screens.
>> 
>> 				Later
>> 				Mike
>> 
>> 
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