welcome to apple

[piranha]

so we're getting ready to upgrade to tiger (OSX 10.4). the paramour pointed out that we have some proof-of-purchase coupons that came with our last upgrade. i found them on the desk (how organized is that!), but they don't have numbers, and need to be filled in with (way too much) info. so i searched all over apple's site to find out under which circumstances they are applicable, and how much we can save with them. couldn't find anything. also, apple's store design -- much too small a font, guys!

google and blogs to the rescue. it turns out that there are upGRADES (such as from 10.3 to 10.4) and upDATES (such as bug fixes between such upgrades). most people download those updates online. for those people who don't have broadband, they can take those coupons to an apple store and get a free CD with the updates (or i guess mail them in to have the CD shipped to them).

ok, totally useless for us. fine. but it would certainly be a good thing if apple printed that on the bloody coupons.

so tomorrow i get to buy new software, if at list price. good ghod, leaving the house already again! and i had barely hunkered down. :)

Comments

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

oh man, the horror stories really make me look forward to this upgrade! :)

All that said, you can buy your upgrade online, can't you?

i could, but the reason we're upgrading at all is work-related, and that also means that we've gotta do it quickly. i also think i might buy an external firewire drive at the same time. make backups easier.

[novazembla.livejournal.com]

The external firewire drive is an excellent, excellent idea. And once you've got it, there's a freeware backer-upper from LaCie called SilverPlatter. This is very useful, because there are some permissions-dependent things on OSX that can re-e-ally screw you up, as I discovered two crises ago, an adventure in which I learned enough that the most recent crisis wasn't a crisis.

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[novazembla.livejournal.com]

Sorry, SilverLining.

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[(Anonymous)]

thanks! the drive i bought included backup software, but i made a note of silverlining in case it doesn't do a good enough job.

[crazed-lynn.livejournal.com]

Stacey has an external lacy harddrive. It is great. It did NOT work with firewire, though. She also has a camera on her machine hooked up to firewire. The firewire kept getting confused and tried repeated to write to the camera instead of the harddrive.

It works wonderfully with usb, however. Except for the part where it suddenly became read-only. That was a problem with itunes, I think. We found something online to deal with that.