Thursday, August 27, 2009

Mac OS X Tiger Can Jump To Snow Leopard for $29

With its relief scheduled pro Friday, blizzard Leopard's a skin condition are commencement to occur into focus. The newest bring up to date to the Mac OS X operating logic is getting reactions across the Web -- counting a tip on how to save money if you aspire to upgrade from the grown-up Tiger version.
Blizzard Leopard, version 10.6 of Mac OS X, will cost $29 to upgrade from Leopard, version 10.5, initially released in 2007. But if you be inflicted with Tiger, the 2005 version 10.4, you can dodge Apple's upgrade charge of $169, according to Walt Mossberg of The hedge Street Journal and others.
According to approximately estimates, in this area a fifth of all Macs still run Tiger. Apple has understood persons users need to approve of the Mac Box Set, which furthermore includes iLife 09 and iWork09, while Leopard users single need to shell out $29 to upgrade.
But Mossberg, a well-known notebook journalist, expected a splendid deal of attention Wednesday as he prominent with the intention of the $29 blizzard Leopard upgrade will bring about fine on Tiger. The single catch is with the intention of you should be running it on a Mac with the intention of uses an Intel PC. Tiger was able to run on both Mac's ex- PowerPC platform as well as on Intel-based apparatus, but all Macs are currently Intel-based.

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