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#Where can i buy apple snow leopard mac os x#

My colleague Robin Harris wrote about at length today in regards to where he feels Mac OS X Server and Desktop missed the boat with Snow Leopard - the Zettabyte File System (ZFS). It seems that Apple is very good at missing key opportunities with their flagship OS. That's a nice little niche it has, but unfortunately for Apple, it's still only just a niche. They may very well use Linux to deploy their applications in the data center, but when it comes down to what they like to use on their own desktops, Mac reigns.

#Where can i buy apple snow leopard how to#

I’ll have my disk in a few days and I’ll do another post on how to go from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.But had Mac OS X Server been able to run on commodity hardware when the company switched over to x86 architecture four years ago back in June of 2005, things might have turned out very different, as evidenced by just how many Open Source developers in large companies now use Macs as their desktop systems of choice. So, just do yourself a favor, save some time, skip eBay, skip Amazon and just call Apple directly. I just got off the phone with them after purchasing the Snow Leopard DVDs for $19.99. The store recommended that I call 1-800-MY-APPLE (1-80) to order the DVDs directly. I knew the original Snow Leopard DVDs sold for $29.99 and I wasn’t about to pay double, so I called the store back.

I searched online and found the Snow Leopard DVDs, but they start at $65 at and $56 on eBay. They also couldn’t find it online so they recommended I buy it from or eBay. I searched for Snow Leopard on the Apple online store and didn’t find anything, so I called the store back. The only problem is that the local store doesn’t carry the Snow Leopard DVDs anymore, so they recommended I go to the Apple online store to purchase the DVD.

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To do the upgrade I need a generic Snow Leopard install DVD. I tried to upgrade using a MacMini OS Install disk, but that didn’t work because that can only be used to restore an OS on a MacMini, not an OS install on a MacBook Pro. To go from 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard you need the install DVDs and then from there you can upgrade via downloads. They said I need to first upgrade to Snow Leopard, then Lion then Mountain Lion. The Apple upgrade page doesn’t mention anything about how to go from 10.5.8 to Mountain Lion, so I called my local Bellevue Apple Store. So I set out to upgrade from 10.5.8 to Mountain Lion. My old MacBook Pro only has 10.5.8 on it and the latest version of Chrome beta isn’t compatible with 10.5.8, so I couldn’t test my Chrome extension. The long-winded dramatic version of this post…Ī user recently reported a bug in my Unstar All Google Reader™ Starred Items Extension on Mountain Lion with Chrome Beta. It’s now longer available from the Apple online store and any other place with cost you at least $56. The short and sweet version of this post…Ĭall 1-800-MY-APPLE (1-80) and order Snow Leopard from Apple directly for $19.99. I still love Microsoft and Windows, but you got to do what you got to do. The truth is that I dev iPhone apps and you can only do that on a Mac. People give me a hard time because I work at Microsoft and use Apple products.