Snow Leopard Up-To-Date Program

http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?partNumber=MC204Z/A&authenticate=entitle

Has anyone tried this yet? I'm getting a blank cart every time I try to place an order. It is my computer or is this not active yet?

 

snow leopard isn't shipping until september or october or something. most likely not yet active.

 

When I spoke to an agent ordering my MBP 2 weeks ago I was a little bit confused with the up-to-date site but he basically just said that - that will work when it starts retailing in September, as I thought it was shipping with units sold in June onwards!

 

Well I hope it works before September.

I purchased my MBP on 6/10/09

 

Thats normal up-to-date program rules....

They said anyone who bought a new Mac at that certain date would be eligible.. no date restrictions....

 

Did you buy it from apple directly online or in the retail store / amazon / elsewhere?

 

I bought it at my local Apple Store.

 

Try going through this link:

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?partNumber=MC204Z/A

It should bring you to a screen where you can qualify your system based on specs from your mac, and from there you can actually pay and obtain an order number on 'Snow Leopard'.

Mine is already paid for and will be delivered once it arrives

 

Wow that worked.

Thanks! Repped

 

When you get Snow Leopard is it an upgrade or a full OS.

 

Full OS, but you'll have the option to upgrade too.

 

Think of it as a service pack as well, as you won't lose any data on your Mac.

 

please use "?" so we understand that you are asking a question

 

It's really both. The SL up-to-date program sends out a disc that requires Leopard to be installed on your Mac in order to install SL, it will first do a check to see if Leopard's installed. You can't have Tiger or an empty drive. Once it checks and Leopard's installed you can do a full erase, reformat and install of SL just like the full version, there's no difference.

 

Christ how many times can you Quote me.

 

i thought you might be using the wrong link

that is why i asked where you bought it from.

 

Hmm that's lame. A real pain if doing a clean install. I'd rather pay full price than have to install twice just to get SL.

 

you don't need to install twice, ever.

if you currently have a mac, you already have an operating system installed.

when you upgrade, it will check for the OS to be installed, then let you erase the drive and install.

if you need to reinstall, you can do that directly, in one step. you will already have Snow Leopard installed, so it will let you erase and install.

 

It will just check to see that you have Leopard, and then It will automatically install Snow Leopard while deleting leopard and keeping all your other files.

 

Ugh, you're right. I was thinking, you had to install leopard first, then install snow leopard over top if you wanted to format your HDD. But if leopard is already installed.... the only hassle would be installing a new hard drive.
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Still, I don't like upgrades.

 

you would have a hassle if you ever upgraded your hard drive, but then installing the OS takes about 20 minutes... doing it again tops us out at 40 minutes...

plus you just went to the trouble of replacing your hard drive, which you do basically never. maybe 1 time, if ever? and you will spend way more than 40 minutes in total on that. so adding an extra 20 minutes shouldn't be that big of a deal.

 

That's true, I thought of that as well.