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That RSplug thing is not a virus. Not technically anyway.

Yes, I believe they are asking $10 to upgrade to Snow Leopard.

Has anyone gotten shipping info from Apple yet?  I just ordered it directly from them (since I won't be able to get to Best Buy on Friday).  It's supposedly going to be "delivered" on Friday.  I would have thought they would have sent it today (wednesday), as 2 day shipping is a good deal cheaper than next-day. 

They charged my card Monday, too.  Sure didn't waste any time on that part.

Jasoco wrote:

It's like giving someone a hammer and saying "Bash your head in for me a few times, okay?"

It's not like that at all ... It's like giving someone a car ... they say oooh a free car ... then at night a bunch of midgets pop out of the trunk and rob the person's house.

Most people are unaware that it is a Trojan ... if they did they wouldn't have installed it.

So I buy a mac next week, it should come with 10.6. Right?

I don't think we know that yet. Let you know tomorrow.

Funkey Monkey wrote:

Could somebody help me out on this?   I did use the search function, but couldn't find a real answer.

If I upgrade from 10.5 to 10.6, using the $29 Upgrade version, what happens if my computer tanks later?   If I have no OS, will I have to completely install 10.5 and then upgrade it to 10.6?

(Thanks to the miracle of Time Machine, this is unlikely to happen to me -- I'm just wondering if the 10.6 disk will actually be a functional install disk.   My wife used to have an "Upgrade Copy" of XP that required you to insert your official windows 98 disk to install.   What a pain.)

My experience is if my Leopard detects any supported OS (in my case 10.4+) even a tanked one on any drive (whether it's the one you are installing on or not), it will let you upgrade or even clean install.

Waiting for enough money to buy the box set family pack (the inclusion of iWork and iLife makes it worth it), and possibly to see if anybody else with a core solo has any issues with the install.  I've long since lost my Tiger disks, so any OS install I attempt will be irreversible.  My wife's MBP, on the other hand, is in bad need of a reinstall and also does not have her Tiger install DVD.

Last edited by Jokotai (2009-08-27 7:55 pm)

How do so many people loose their installation media? Boogles my mind.

Well, seeing how most of us don't have to re-install the OS every few months due to problems, I can understand why...

Installation
The first thing you'll notice on double clicking the 'install Mac OS X' icon is that the installer doesn't immediately restart your machine and boot the OS from the DVD, as has been the case in the past. Like most things in Snow Leopard, the installer has been completely updated.

Simplicity is the key here and, unless you want to dig deeper and do a custom install, you'll need to click a couple of standard EULA agreement buttons and that's it. Done. No keycodes or passwords. No nagging about copyright infringement. Nada. It just gets on with the job.

A clean install to a recently-formatted drive took 35 minutes and, despite some reports to the contrary, made no effort to check that a previous copy of Leopard was installed - take note Tiger users. An update to an existing install of Leopard 10.5.4 took a little longer at 55 minutes, but that included checking and isolating out of date and incompatible software and installing Rosetta which is required for certain legacy apps from the PowerPC era. This upgrade left pretty much everything intact including user accounts and preferences, network connections and even desktop icons. Totally seamless.

The installer also intelligently installs only the printer drivers it thinks you require by checking which printers are installed on your network or have been used recently. Apple reckons Snow Leopard will save you at least 7GB of hard drive space once installed. Some users have reported as much as 20GB on older machines and we raked back 9GB. We suspect that a large chunk of this has been achieved simply by not installing thousands of useless printer drivers.

Boot it up

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/rev … d-reviewed

Oh my, I've waiting for this.



http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/25 … page3.html

ScifiterX wrote:

As per the MacLife web article:
http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/

Vuze is 4.2.0.8 now and supposedly works

That's a handy link!