I currently have an iMac (All in the screen white one) and I want to upgrade the current software (Tiger) to the latest software (Snow Leopard) - How much will this cost me? (In UK 's)How much will it cost for me to uprgrade my Mac OSX Tiger software to Snow Leopard?You know, Apple does have a website with prices on it.How much will it cost for me to uprgrade my Mac OSX Tiger software to Snow Leopard?Firstly it all depends on which iMac you have, to be able to run Snow Leopard you are going to have to have an iMac with an Intel processor not one of the iMac G5 systems. If you have an intel processor then you can upgrade to the new os. To find out your processor go to the Apple menu top right on the menu bar and choose About this mac. In the window that appears you will find the processor you have.
Technically you should be buying the box set as you do not have Leopard already this is available at the apple store for 132 at the moment. The upgrade version at 25 is meant to be for upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard however many people have found that this upgrades tiger to snow leopard as well although it breaks the terms and conditions to do so. There are many discussions on this online. Visit the Apple online store at the link below
http://store.apple.com/uk/How much will it cost for me to uprgrade my Mac OSX Tiger software to Snow Leopard?You can't. The price of the DVD is 25 by itself, or you can buy the Mac Box Set that includes three DVDs: Snow Leopard, iWork '09, and iLife '09.
Either way, the SL DVD is the same. Either way, it won't install over Tiger. The Snow Leopard installer will refuse to install over Tiger. Those who claim they %26quot;upgraded Tiger to Snow Leopard%26quot; will all admit that they did this by ERASING TIGER. Well, that's not the same as upgrading Tiger.
You will have three choices:
[1] Erase the entire hard drive.
[2] Create a new partition to install Snow Leopard separate from Tiger. This has the advantage of allowing you to boot to your old Tiger system to use older software. To do this, you have to either boot to target disk mode, connect your Mac to another Firewire Mac that is running OS 10.5.x or 10.6.x, or boot to an OS 10.5.x or 10.6.x Install DVD.
[3] (if your Mac has Firewire and you have enough available space on the hard drive) you can make a folder called %26quot;Previous system%26quot;, boot to target disk mode, connect your Mac to another Firewire Mac move the Tiger folders (Applications, Library, System, and Users) into the %26quot;Previous Systems%26quot; folder, and then boot to the Snow Leopard DVD to install normally. With a non-Firewire Mac, you could do this in single user mode (UNIX command line), but it's not for the faint of heart or those with bad typing skills, as you can mess things up by typing incorrectly.
