we are a family of 6 and all apparantly need to upgrade our computers to snowleopard, so what is the most affordable way to do   so?

• Asked by Ed M from Castle Rock
• Dec 20, 2012
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Can I buy the 10.6 Family pack and use it to upgrade one macbook running 10.5 and one macbook pro running 10.4?

I have a old fairly broken down Macbook Pro that was a seriously early revision, like 13 weeks out of the factory. It is running the latest version of Tiger (10.4.11? I can't remember). I also have a newer Macbook running 10.5.8.

My plan is to use the old MBP with a external harddrive hooked up to a tv to play my movies. I'm fairly stubborn and want to do this using dvdpedia and frontrow but the plugin will not work under 10.4, only 10.5 or 10.6.

So I was wondering if I could purchase the Snow Leopard family pack and upgrade BOTH my computers? I know in the description it says to upgrade from Tiger I need the box set edition but I do not need any of the iApps, in fact I would delete them straight away so no way am I paying $NZ349 for it. This is probably more than the computer is worth seeing as the airport card, battery and dvd drive do not work.

Sorry if this is overly complicated but I am a student and I don't want to commit my money if there is no hope of achieving what I want! If anyone has some answers or clarification for me that would be amazing :)

• Asked by Frances R from Dunedin
• Feb 7, 2010
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OS X Snow Leopard Upgrade for multiple computers.

I have an iMac and a Macbook that need upgrading to Snow Leopard. Do I need to purchase 2 Snow Leopard DVD packages? Is there a family pack available? There is no description of the license requirements for Snow Leopard on the Apple Store page. (In fact, it's difficult to find Snow Leopard in the store at all!)

• Asked by Katherine K from The Woodlands
• Feb 10, 2013
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Do I need my old media to install 10.6 upgrade?

I have 10.5 family pack media, but the disc is scratched beyond use. Thanks!

• Asked by John M from Bath
• Feb 22, 2011
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Owned a Mac for years: MAC OS X 10.4.11 / 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / Safari 4.1.3. No software updates available. What's best way to upgrade?

If it isn't already apparent, I'm also not very "computer literate". I've been told I need to bring the Mac into a store, but that's really not feasible. I know there have been several software tiers since my "ancient" form of Safari (Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard and now Lion). Had Firefox at one time, but can't seem to get it again (without updating the computer, which I have been unable to do as of yet).

Oh, don't know if it's important -- but "memory-wise" -- the computer has 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (not that I know what any of that means).


I honestly don't have a clue what to do -- and the fact that I'm considering both an iBook and an iPhone purchase in the near future only confuses me that much more. Any help would be appreciated so I can get the most out of my computer.

• Asked by Scot C from Brooklyn
• Nov 8, 2011
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I have 4 Macs in the family. Three Leopards and one Tiger. Will the family pack serve all 4 computers?

• Asked by Marianne L from San Ramon
• Oct 10, 2009
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I am running Tiger. I want to upgrade to Mac Box Set 10.6. Will I need to back up all of my files and downloaded applications before upgrading?

• Asked by Adriane F from Washington
• Sep 9, 2010
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I HAVE AN IPAD, IPHONE & MACBOOK DO I NEED TO BUY 10.6 FAMILY?

• Asked by Jan S from Burbank
• Jul 12, 2012
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can I use the snow leopard upgrade on all of my mac computers?

• Asked by Donald R O from Winter Park
• Nov 4, 2011
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mac os x 10.5.8 need upgrading?

I have mac os x 10.5.8 and there is no more software updates. Is it a good idea to upgrade to mac os x 10.6 snow leopard? will everything on my computer still run?

thanks

• Asked by Andrew W
• Jan 25, 2011
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