cubswinfllclssic Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 With the rise of retail-booting methods, I'm wondering how many of us are actually buying retail DVDs. Kudos to everyone who is able to run a vanilla installation and therefore purchased their copy of Snow Leopard (EDIT: I was alerted to the fact that just because you can't run a pure vanilla system doesn't mean you didn't purchase a legal copy of Snow Leopard-- even more kudos to anyone who purchased the intellectual property anyway without being able to run a vanilla installation). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BladeRunner Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 With the rise of retail-booting methods, I'm wondering how many of us are actually buying retail DVDs. Kudos to everyone who is able to run a vanilla installation and therefore purchased their copy of Snow Leopard. Let's not assume that you need to be able to run pure vanilla to purchase a retail copy of OS X. I purchased Leopard 10.5.1 and Snow Leopard. My system is an old IBM ThinkCentre desktop with a P4 Prescott CPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubswinfllclssic Posted September 10, 2009 Author Share Posted September 10, 2009 Let's not assume that you need to be able to run pure vanilla to purchase a retail copy of OS X. I purchased Leopard 10.5.1 and Snow Leopard. My system is an old IBM ThinkCentre desktop with a P4 Prescott CPU. Good point. I will edit my original post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorcho Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 It doesn't matter whether people bought the OS or not - hackintosh's help by drawing users into the Apple ecosystem who otherwise can't justify the price of a new Mac yet. but they will buy ipods, iphones, media off itunes, etc. Once users get ensconced in that it's likely they won't pull away anytime soon, and that could spur more hardware sales. At least that's why I think Apple 'tolerates' it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubswinfllclssic Posted September 10, 2009 Author Share Posted September 10, 2009 It doesn't matter whether people bought the OS or not - hackintosh's help by drawing users into the Apple ecosystem who otherwise can't justify the price of a new Mac yet. but they will buy ipods, iphones, media off itunes, etc. Once users get ensconced in that it's likely they won't pull away anytime soon, and that could spur more hardware sales. At least that's why I think Apple 'tolerates' it. I agree. And in many cases, there's no point to go out and purchase the OS (especially if you're just using it in a sandbox environment and not using it as your main OS). I just wanted to get a feel for how many of us bought Snow Leopard, due mostly to the fact that it's the first release where we already had tried and tested methods in place to boot the retail DVD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zortoflaven Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 I started using my OSX install over Windows during the summer. I love what OSX can do, so I bought a Snow Leopard DVD when it came out. I haven't installed SL yet (waiting for some better methods to come to light), so I'm still on my Leo install (which, sadly, I did not buy a dvd for). Honestly, for $30 bucks everyone should buy a SL disc to support Apple (not that they need it!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SStreet Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 I bought the $149 edition in the box, iLife, iWork, and SL. Haven't got to upgrade this system yet for SL, looking to do that in the next few days. As for the comments related to Apple, indeed Apple does need the support and we show any commerical company support by sending our purchase dollars in their direction. Or simply stated, if we don't spend money to support the companys we trust, then who will? the other guy? And I've commented to Apple on several ocassions that when they have a computer system that isn't an ultra-expensive Xeon, and not a all-in-one consumer box -- but one with a high power descrite GPU, room for 2 HDDs, a single optical, and fits nicely on my desk -- I'll buy two the first day -- yeah like the one I built <grin> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zortoflaven Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 And I've commented to Apple on several ocassions that when they have a computer system that isn't an ultra-expensive Xeon, and not a all-in-one consumer box -- but one with a high power descrite GPU, room for 2 HDDs, a single optical, and fits nicely on my desk -- I'll buy two the first day -- yeah like the one I built <grin> That's the problem I have now. I would love to purchase a Mac, but without going the Mac Pro route ($$$!), nothing they have can really compete with my current desktop. I hope they just cave and allow for official support on PC hardware. I don't see this denting their hardware sales. Their aesthetics are top and people will still pay for that. Also, those that want OSX on their PC, already have it! Might as well make it official and start collecting more money on OS and software sales! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srs5694 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 FWIW, I bought the "family pack" from Best Buy online because they had a $5-off sale. Unfortunately, it's back-ordered online (despite the fact that it's available in my local B&M Best Buy). Thus, I don't have it yet, but I have ordered it. If the online backorder situation persists, I may just cancel the online order and buy locally, but for the moment I'm not in any great rush. Since one of my two Hackintoshes uses an AMD CPU, I'll probably wait for a distribution that supports AMD before I actually upgrade, although I might try a "vanilla" upgrade on my Intel-based laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpo Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I am in the Computer trade and have always used Windows for my work computers. I installed IATKOS v7 on my home computer, and was so impressed with the Mac os that i bought 4 macs for my business. If it was not for projects like these, there would have been no way i would have considered using Macs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Italia64 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 I bought a family pack to upgrade 4 of my 5 Apple machines (4 of the 5 are Intel, one PPC), and haven't yet put it on my hack (machine #5) but am planning to. Sadly it won't work on my G5. I have 6 Macs, only one is a hack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer75 Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 Well technically you need to buy the full version. As the $29 version is only for those who own leopard. Since most hackintosh users do not they need to buy the full version. So I imagine apple is still pissed because A)you didn't buy their hardware and B)you didn't pay for the full version. So not much point in handing out kudos for not buying the full version if you were supposed to. You still aren't paying them for thier intellectual property. Just saying is all. I don't really care either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terramir Posted September 11, 2009 Share Posted September 11, 2009 With the rise of retail-booting methods, I'm wondering how many of us are actually buying retail DVDs. Kudos to everyone who is able to run a vanilla installation and therefore purchased their copy of Snow Leopard (EDIT: I was alerted to the fact that just because you can't run a pure vanilla system doesn't mean you didn't purchase a legal copy of Snow Leopard-- even more kudos to anyone who purchased the intellectual property anyway without being able to run a vanilla installation). Anyways anyone notice (I have a retail leopard) that the snow leopard upgrade includes stickers one of those went promptly on my 1005HAB (has leopard right now, still waiting for a retail snow leopard install guide to my HD dun want to break my working leopard till I know I can get it right. wish I could post pics (the Eee shines through a little bit) but it makes a statement LOL terramir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlyc Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I have 2 Mac and one Hac so I bought a family 5 Pac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibedonc Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 Well technically you need to buy the full version. As the $29 version is only for those who own leopard. Since most hackintosh users do not they need to buy the full version. So I imagine apple is still pissed because A)you didn't buy their hardware and B)you didn't pay for the full version. So not much point in handing out kudos for not buying the full version if you were supposed to. You still aren't paying them for thier intellectual property. Just saying is all. I don't really care either way. I bought 10.4 early this year ( I have a MacBook also) and bought the family Snow upgr on this system I run Linux most of the time , but it is nice to be able to boot S/L and run a few apps I do not have on Linux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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