HTTP:: Apple s EULA Forbids Direct Upgrade from Tiger to OS X 10 6
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It has been revealed that an Intel Mac user can directly install Snow Leopard over Tiger, as the system specs and install disc see the match and carry out the instructions. However, as surprising as this may sound to some, Apple says it’s not allowed. A little while ago, tech-columnist Walt Mossberg stated that the Snow Leopard upgrade "will work properly on [...]Tiger equipped Macs, so you can save the extra $140." The tests have been made and, yes, Walt was right. You can save the extra buck, but that doesn’t mean you should, a TUAW report suggests. Just so everyone is on the same level here, Apple intended Snow Leopard as an upgrade from OS X 10.5 Leopard. This means that, as an OS X 10.4 Tiger user, you’d have to first go through an upgrade to Leopard, and then install Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. While Leopard users have an easy task of upgrading to the latest Mac OS, Tiger users must purchase the $169 Mac Box Set, which contains three discs: Mac OS X v10.6 Snow !
Leopard, iLife ’09, and iWork ’09, according to Apple’s End User License Agreement. Why? Because Tiger users didn’t pay for the upgrade to Leopard, on which OS X 10.6 is built. An excerpt from Apple’s Snow Leopard EULA can be found below. "C. Le...
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