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    Apple Warranty- free upgrades on software and os?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by kabooky, Aug 2, 2006.

  1. kabooky

    kabooky Notebook Guru

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    If I bought a macbook a week before leopard came out, would I get a free upgrade from tiger to leopard, is it within 90 days, or the length of your warranty, does this apply to software too?
     
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    xbandaidx Notebook Deity

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    No, I don't believe you would get a free upgrade, you'd have to pay for it.

    Leopard isn't expected to be out until 2007 Q1 anyways. Actually no one really knows we'll find out next Monday when Steve announces it.
     
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    kabooky Notebook Guru

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    Yeah, I know vista and leopard are ever farther down the road, it was sorta a hypothetical question.
     
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    zadillo Notebook Virtuoso

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    It's a good question........ Apple at least used to do a program called "Mac OS X Up-To-Date" where if you either bought the previous version of OS X, or bought a computer with the previous version after a certain date, you could buy an upgrade to the newly released version for $19.95. I'm not sure if they've done it currently though (I know they did it for 10.2).

    (i.e. here's a page from the 10.3 Up-To-Date Program): http://www.apple.com/lae/macosx/uptodate/

    I don't know if they did it for Tiger though, or if they'll do something similar for Leopard.

    I think usually the up-to-date program was mainly meant to cover people who bought the previous version (or a computer with it) after the product was officially announced/released. I would guess that in a circumstance like what you described (where you bought a Mac and literally a weak later 10.5 came out), you could probably find some way to convince them to let you get it somehow or another (technically you could probably literally exchange it or something, and they'd probably prefer to just give you the new software then deal with a returned computer).
     
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    zadillo Notebook Virtuoso

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    As a general point, the AppleCare warranty doesn't specifically include free major software upgrades, so whatever would be done would be outside of the realm of that.

    The one thing I know of that does include free OS upgrades would be an ADC Select membership (available either for a full price, or for $99 USD for students); with that, you get free CD's for the year of any major OS releases, etc.
     
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