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Tiger (OS X 10.4) is expected to ship on or before June 30th. How soon after it's available will you upgrade?
1/1: Tiger (OS X 10.4) is expected to ship on or before June 30th. How soon after it's available will you upgrade?
Other polls | 2,819 votes | 16 comments
Within the week
I do not know about anyone else but i will be buying it ASAP but i will wait until i can devote an entire day to the upgrade and subsequent playing (plus, i heard it take a long time for spotlight to index all of it.)
when ready
Like with every major release, I'll upgrade to Tiger when a combination of these is true:
Waiting to see if G3's & 16 MB video cards will be left behind.
I'll (anxiously) wait until I see here how it runs on G3's and the latest CRT iMacs (where the video cards had just 16 MB of RAM). I'm thinking that I'll likely have to wait for my next Mac to run Tiger.
Upgrade plan
Shortly after 10.4 comes out, I'll upgrade to 10.3, for probably about $20 on ebay. Last year's technology for less that 10% of the retail price, and it's legal. 10.4 will wait till 10.5, or until i get a new computer.
When 10.4.1 is released
...or maybe 10.4.2! In the meantime, I'll keep an eye on the reports of "early adopters" that roll in to this site.
So let's see: if 10.4.0 is released in April, I expect I will have upgraded by the end of June -- "Within three months." ;)
a month (or more?)
Normally I'd get it and install the day it appeared. But my uni has a site license that makes it VERY inexpensive to put on campus Macs. It'll probably be a while before they get the media.. But saving $100 is worth it to me.
a month (or more?)
Ours (Texas A&M) has such a deal only with microsoft :( .
ASAP
At least on a test machine. I run a couple of labs, and a couple of studios. When Apple gets me my AMP copies I will test on a couple of configurations and see what, if anything breaks. If all goes well, large scale deployment will happen at the nearest semester break (2 semesters over summer, so that gives a lot of possible breaks).
End of 2005
I expect I'll wait until the end of the year at least. (Maybe for Christmas.) Regardless of how much work goes into these things before release they never seem to be tuned up until x.x.2 or x.x.3 Let everyone else work out the kinks and when things seem to run smoothly ...
Best of both
For those who wisely believe it's best to wait to try 10.4, but don't really want to wait, you can have the best of both worlds: if your Mac can hold a second hard drive, install one, or if it can't, back up your single hard drive and partition it into two volumes, restore your backup to the first volume, and install 10.4 onto the second drive/volume. If 10.4 causes you too much trouble, etc., just reboot from your pre-10.4 volume, and wait until the 10.4 bugfixes start appearing before you try it again.
Best of both
a partition on an external firewire hard drive is also a nice and simple option. i did it when 10.3 came out.
Pre-Ordered
I preordered my copy (actually I ordered the family pack so I won't feel guilty about buying one set to update 2 machines) from Amazon and got a nice rebate coupon ($35 for single install, $50 for family pack). That makes my price $149 for the family pack, meaning my second copy essentially cost $20.
Add another category to ballot
The category that is missing is "I've already pre-ordered"
Add another category to ballot
I preordered about 10 minutes after I found out. U gotta love education discounts though :) £51 education, about £89 normal I think.
Still on 10.2.8
I said "When I get a new Mac", but as I think about it, I may move when a good price on eBay shows up. In the mean time, prices for Panther should crash once Tiger is out. Yes!
Peter, Founder, International School of Blog Repair ---
Maybe 2 weeks with student discount
I voted that I would get it within a week, but I've had a little change of schedule. It is close enough to my birthday, so I'll probably just wait a couple of weeks and ask for it as a gift. By the way, if Tiger is anything like panther you might qualify for an Apple student discount. I know I do! I saved about $60 on panther this way. Here is the URL for my school's apple store: http://www.unt.edu/helpdesk/purchase/apple.htm |
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