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Originally Posted by JesseBlue
so tiger to snow leopard is an sp hmm...
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nah, there are too many changes from tiger to leopard to make that a simple SP, also going from leopard to snow leopard seems to be just a SP to most but in reality theres a WHOLE LOT that has been tweaked under the hood. IMHO its well worth the $30. i think that apple is being very lenient with upgrade paths and have set a low price point to promote adoption. 10.6 is great and but it does not wow you like when you first upgraded to 10.5 from 10.4. just wait, 10.6 has paved the way for major changes to come in 10.7.
on the topic on SP's... when was the last time MS re-wrote the windows code. even with windows 7 (which i used and think is way better than vista), they are still recycling age old code and programming and tweaking the shit out of it. with the SP's for windows ME-2 (aka vista) there were significant performance gains when compared to the original release but not a re-write. also you still have to buy a totally separate edition if you want to use 64-bit. and if you got stuck using a 32bit version of windows the os would only see 3gb of ram, if you had 4gb or more then the rest is just wasted. software compatibility can be a pain as some apps dont support windows x64.
snow leopard throws everything on one disc, depending on your hardware it will boot into the appropriate OS, even if your mac doesnt support it now its sitting waiting for your next hardware upgrade, just clone the drive and reboot and you are ready to go... even better just restore from a time machine backup on your new mac.