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    exact release date for snow leopard?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by dmitrip, Jun 8, 2009.

  1. dmitrip

    dmitrip Notebook Guru

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    Did apple announce the exact release date of snow leopard? on their site it says September, but I want to buy a macbook pro and I want SL to be included with my new package for school and school starts September 8th so I was just wondering if they announced the exact date yet?

    thanks.
     
    dmitrip, Jun 8, 2009
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  2. Xirurg

    Xirurg ORLY???

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    AFAIK,if you buy now,it will cost you just 10$-i.e. shipping of the disk.
     
    Xirurg, Jun 8, 2009
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  3. dmitrip

    dmitrip Notebook Guru

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    just to make sure I understand this properly, if i buy one now, I will get Leopard pre-installed on the laptop but then in september i can get a Snow Leopard installation disk for $10?

    thanks again
     
    dmitrip, Jun 8, 2009
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  4. onlineid84

    onlineid84 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeppers...
     
    onlineid84, Jun 8, 2009
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  5. dmitrip

    dmitrip Notebook Guru

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    and to update to SL will I have to format my whole OSX just like you have to do in windows? or will it just simply update my system? sorry for the questions I just dont have much experience with macs yet.

    thanks
     
    dmitrip, Jun 8, 2009
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  6. Xirurg

    Xirurg ORLY???

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    no,it will be an upgrade,everything will stay in place!
     
    Xirurg, Jun 9, 2009
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    sarahfox Notebook Consultant

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    Everything will stay in place*

    However! In my previous experience, upgrading to leopard from (was it tiger?) there were a couple of small bugs with finder and networking. So sometimes a fresh install is a little 'safer', but generally Apple is pretty hot with their install/upgrade process.
     
    sarahfox, Jun 9, 2009
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  8. Seshan

    Seshan Rawrrr!

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    It will also give you 6 more gb of space! :)
     
    Seshan, Jun 9, 2009
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