Free upgrade to 10.5

[g/re/p]

Originally Posted by pds

so - why doesn't macosx.com make a pre-order-program arrangement with Amazon. Daring Fireball gets a ten-spot out of each copy pre-ordered at Amazon through his link.

I am not sure about that - but another mac site i belong to has an amazon.com link that i bookmarked - so everytime i buy something on amazon - and i do so frequently - the site gets some kind monetary reward.

[hawki18]

Looks good I get the $9.95 upgrade.

[hawki18]

Originally Posted by bbloke

hawki18 said he bought it "this last weekend" and his post was dated October 9th, so I'm assuming he made his purchase on October 6th or 7th.

Correct bbloke got it on the 7th or October

[hawki18]

Just ordered my upgrade version sure glad I quailified

[icemanjc]

So is it the upgrade or is it the actual full version for all computers?

[bbloke]

Originally Posted by hawki18

Correct bbloke got it on the 7th or October

Sounds like good news for you, hawki18! And you've now confirmed you qualified and have placed your order.

[bbloke]

Originally Posted by icemanjc

So is it the upgrade or is it the actual full version for all computers?

To my knowledge, there is only one version (i.e. physical package) of OS X that ships, and you have the option of using that installer to upgrade an existing installation, amongst other methods.

[fryke]

AFAIK there _are_ two versions. The full retail version installs on any Mac meeting the requirements. The upgrade disk requires the Mac to already have 10.4.x installed, which means that when you have to replace the harddrive because of a disk failure, for example, you first have to install 10.4.x again. You can, however, still perform a clean install, so that 10.4 installation can be very minimal and doesn't have to be set up.