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just ordered the family box set. better deal, imho. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MACBOX-101801 click the family pack option... Also, there is no difference in price when purchasing under the education store, afaik.
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I'm still on Tiger and I'm probably not going to upgrade. I have a first-gen "lapburner" MBP which works just fine. Leopard didn't really offer anything ground breaking and it doesn't appear Snow Leopard will either. And I figure anything ground-breaking will require newer hardware, so I guess I'll stay on Tiger until the machine stops working. Which coincidentally is also why XP users don't upgrade either.
I think it depends. If you have a first-gen MBP than you are better off getting the new OS. 10.4 "supported" Intel chips but it always felt like a hack between PPC and Intel platforms. 10.5, and each update since, has gotten progressively better for Intel chips. I think you've fallen for the marketing trap where a list of features has to be present for it to be worth something. Not many lists include code and platfor…
In the end I don't think there really is anything they can do to make me pay more money for the OS. I already bought iWork 08, I bought SuperDuper! for backup, and everything else I use is either open source or comes included with the machine. If Apple wants me to upgrade, then they need to discontinue security updates for 10.4 or some widget I badly need needs to be 10.5+. And honestly, it's not me that Apple has to contend with, it's my wife and her iron grip over the budget ;)
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I'm still on Tiger and I'm probably not going to upgrade. I have a first-gen "lapburner" MBP which works just fine. Leopard didn't really offer anything ground breaking and it doesn't appear Snow Leopard will either. And I figure anything ground-breaking will require newer hardware, so I guess I'll stay on Tiger until the machine stops working. Which coincidentally is also why XP users don't upgrade either.
Time machine alone was worth the price of admission. There were also some good unix upgrades in there if that sort of thing carries any weight with you.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/ for all those who claims it's just a service pack. But, as I said elsewhere, the major improvements are under the hood.
As a non Mac OS user, that link just reinforces to me that it looks like just a service pack. But at $29, I don't think it matters. If it were $129, that would be ridiculous.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/ for all those who claims it's just a service pack. But, as I said elsewhere, the major improvements are under the hood.
As a non Mac OS user, that link just reinforces to me that it looks like just a service pack. But at $29, I don't think it matters. If it were $129, that would be ridiculous.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/
I'll get it and pray that the Exchange integration makes using Mail and iCal a little smoother. Besides, I just like upgrading to new releases :-)
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Time machine alone was worth the price of admission. There were also some good unix upgrades in there if that sort of thing carries any weight with you.
What Unix upgrades?
Can someone give a quick non-marketing-speak version of what Grand Central Dispatch really does?
Actually (and I'll hide my lack of knowledge by being vague) it's a means of making it easier for developers to create robust multicore capable software. I think.