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Having to start all over w/a new HD...should I buy Tiger upgrade or complete Tiger?
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I'm having to replace the hard drive in my PowerBook after the original HD broke last week. The computer came with OS 10.3 on DVDs. I'm wanting to go to Tiger and don't know if I should first install 10.3 and then buy the Tiger upgrade, or if I should just buy the complete Tiger package. I think there's about $40 difference between the two packs. Is there any advantage to buying the complete Tiger package (~$120)? If I just get the upgrade and go from 10.3 to 10.4, can I go to 10.4.6 with a free online download? Thanks!
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There is no Tiger upgrade.
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Dunno what that is, but it doesn't look exactly legit. These are the only options to buy Tiger:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL...plm=MA453Z%2FA
The normal Tiger disk will upgrade your Mac. It seems very strange the way they are selling 10.3 disks with a Tiger 'upgrade' disk in that link you provide. The picture shows that they seem to be selling system disks from an iMac. Those disks might not even work on a Powerbook. Although I suppose you might get iLife with it too.
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Is it worth spending $120 for Tiger, and then another $80 for iLife 2006, or should I just install Panther and wait for Leopard to come out? Spring 2007, right?
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Tiger is worth the money, but if I waited so long I'd wait the few months more for Leopard and iWork '07 and get those instead. $200 for 6-8 months of use would be a little bit steep in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by STAT
If I just get the upgrade and go from 10.3 to 10.4, can I go to 10.4.6 with a free online download? Thanks!
Yes, you can. No need to pay $40 for the full version.
And maybe I would only wait for iLife '07 (only 4 months away) and not for Leopard (could be almost 10 months away).
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I'd wait till WWDC and see what comes out there. It'd be kinda silly to buy Tiger now if you were going to upgrade when Leopard came out.
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Do you mean wait until MWSF instead of WWDC? The next WWDC is almost 12 months away.
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Originally Posted by monkeybrain
Dunno what that is, but it doesn't look exactly legit.
Apple included upgrade discs with computers shipped after 10.4 was released but which had but manufactured back when 10.3 was standard (like most of the later eMacs).
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