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No coupon for you, new Mac buyer! Snow Leopard upgrade costs $9.95
Remeber the announcement last week that Windows 7 upgrade coupon plans are falling into place? Buy a machine with Windows Vista within the specified window, and you'll get a voucher for a free, spankin' new Windows 7.What about Apple hardware currently sporting Leopard? Snow Leopard is due soon, after all. So will you get a free upgrade?
Not so much.
It'll cost you $9.95 - not a huge premium, obviously, but it's still more than free. While I'm not an Apple user and not in the market for a new notebook anyway, that offer stinks.
Leopard to Snow Leopard isn't quite the same evolutionary step as Vista is to Windows 7, but that upgrade won't cost a cent? I like the sound of that much better.
Will the fee hurt Apple sales? Likely not. Most consumers probably either won't bother with the update or won't think twice about shelling out ten bucks to get current. But can you imagine the crap storm that would ensue if Microsoft was to pull that when transitioning from one OS to another?
We'd never hear the end of it.
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Subscribe to commentsdalmitdalJun 21st 2009 1:55PM
$9.95 is a small price to pay to avoid Vista for 4 months.
Norm HugginsJun 25th 2009 12:08PM
Sorry, let me get this straight- you are chastising Apple for offering essentially a free upgrade from a superior OS to an even better one, while patting M$ on the back for offering a free upgrade from that nightmare, Vista? Make no mistake, M$ makes the upgrade free as a reward for putting up with Vista until 7 is released. That's why my office still runs XP. The reason many Mac users won't choose to fork over the measly ten bucks is that Leopard 10.6 is an outstanding OS that runs smoothly. You can hardly say the same for Vista. If M$ really wants to do right by its customers, it will offer EVERY Vista user a free upgrade.
Mathew PadillaAug 8th 2009 5:31PM
win7 is not free, MS is charging 15.00, but most computer companys are eating the cost. So you get it for free, but MS is getting 15.00. I also would bet that you will have to pay for shipping of the disks if you want more than the downloaded file off the net. Don't even get me started on how much you have to pay if you are just buying the software, or upgrading, 99.00 to 399.00 for MS vs. 39.99 for apple, so please don't make Ms out to be this altruistic company, Bill Gates didn't get to be the richest man in the world by giving his OS away.
BobAug 24th 2009 10:35PM
Of course Microsoft will hear crap for charging to change operating systems considering Windows Vista sucked so bad people downgraded to XP. Snow Leopard will be an actual Upgrade for Mac users that have an operating system that already works great anyway (Leopard). Windows is giving theirs for free because the newest one doesn't work well. Plain as that.