Apple outlines Leopard upgrade path for current Mac owners
At least some current Mac owners can get Leopard for free.
(Credit: Apple)One of our chief complaints about the new iMac and Mac Mini from this summer was that Apple gave no details on the upgrade path to Apple's Leopard OS X update that everyone knew was coming later this year. Now that we have a concrete ship date for the full version of Leopard, Apple has also spilled on what this update means for you new Mac owners.
From Engadget: "Users who bought Apple machines from October 1 on can participate in Apple's Up-To-Date Program, which provides free Leopard upgrades (for $10 shipping)."
You'll find more specific upgrading details on Apple's own Up-To-Date page.
We expect anyone who purchased a Mac after October 1 will welcome the free upgrade, but the new iMac and updated Mac Mini went on sale on August 8. Looks like you Apple early adopters get burned once again.
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over two months before an upgrade? Yeah, right. Look, this sort of thing
happens all the time, nobody got "burned." Somebody who bought an iMac in
August or September isn't even an "early adopter," and Apple had announced
back in June (or was it May?) that Leopard would ship in October, so this should
have been a surprise to no one.
The point is that it was publicly known for some time that Apple was going to ship Leopard at the end of '07. Subsequently to that OS launch announcement new Macs become available. Now a cutoff date to a free update is announced, and those early adopters in the five or six [i]weeks[/i] that the new computers were available prior to Apple's seemingly arbitrary cutoff of Oct. 1 are left out in the cold. Apple certainly can't offer freebies to everyone...but it's also senseless given the respective launching dates to cut out owners of the newest Macs when it was clear that Leopard was about to go live.
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Once again, Apple screws over its customers. I used to be a Mac freak, but their recent lack of customer service?as in, "not caring"?is starting to annoy me.
delayed releases and price drops because he's getting rich.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/2007/10/24/apple_osx_leopard/