How To: Snow Leopard Upgrade/Install (Simple)

September 1st, 2009 | by admin |

Snow Leopard, Mac OS 10.6, was released today, August 28th, 2009. This evolutionary OS improves upon Leopard’s success sporting a tagline “The world’s most advanced operating system. Finely tuned.” For $29 this upgrade is well worth the cash because it’s improvements help a lot on the back-end. Sporting grand central dispatch, for better multi-core support, OpenCl, allowing users to to offload work to the GPU, along with other medications makes this version of OS X the “fastest, most reliable, and easiest to use.”

Upgrading is dead simple in snow leopard. Just pop in the disc and follow the on screen directions. This upgrade process will replace leopard system files with snow leopard system keeping all your data intact. However, more advanced users may want to install snow leopard clean. A video will provide you the how to, on just that, in the coming days.

If you haven’t already done so, make sure to check out my blog post ensuring that you and your mac are ready for upgrade. http://michaelsherlock.com/2009/08/27/snow-leopard-prep/

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  1. 25 Responses to “How To: Snow Leopard Upgrade/Install (Simple)”

  2. By theak47shotta on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    my mac rules lol …
    my mac rules lol its a imac 20inch core 2 duo 2gb ddr3 had it new with tiger on when leapord was released installed taht now installed snow leapord and its like ive bough it new woooooooooooooooo

  3. By Mycatisbigfoot on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    LOL, and I think …
    LOL, and I think why 10.3 was smaller as they took out the old world Chip code out, (beige power mac) (orignal ibook)

  4. By theycallmechili on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    o yeah… never …
    o yeah… never thought of that… :D

  5. By SuburbianKnights on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    Are you saying that …
    Are you saying that we can do a clean install for Tiger on Snow Leopard or we can do an upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard.

  6. By SuburbianKnights on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    Check out my video …
    Check out my video it tells you how to do it

  7. By Mycatisbigfoot on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    Apple took out the …
    Apple took out the PPC code in 10.6 so thats why it takes less space

  8. By miguelhx on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    very informative …
    very informative video. thank you Im planning to install leopard on tuesday! cant wait..

  9. By xxxDemonKillerxxx on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    Ya how do you …
    Ya how do you therevivedone?

  10. By R031E5 on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    Of course you can, …
    Of course you can, but remember that the agreement says that you can only install it on one machine. If you plan to share it with someone else, make sure you buy another license (another box) after installing it : ) .

  11. By amoergosum3 on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks for your …
    Thanks for your video.
    When are you gonna post the clean install video?

  12. By mtchnelson on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    So when I do the …
    So when I do the Upgrade Install, like you did, all my applications will still be there when I’m done?

  13. By AaronBalitskyz on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    im so glad you …
    im so glad you posted the video… that means i can share my disk with my friend….. great vid

  14. By 8aetroya8 on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    there is a serial # …
    there is a serial # like below said, click on Version 10.6 and you’ll get the build #, click again you’ll get serial #

  15. By starkerkrieger on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    assuming that you …
    uming that you installed the retail upgrade to Snow Leopard, if you go to “About This Mac”, you showed the version (10.6), could you be so kind to check the Build number? If you click on the version field it will change right away and show probably something like: Build 10A4##

    thanks a lot therevivedone

  16. By JakeFukkenSnayk on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    jesus! a whopping …
    jesus! a whopping 38GB!

  17. By eluve59 on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    how do you make …
    how do you make your macintosh hd icon look like a macbook? nice vid, btw

  18. By eluve59 on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    so do i! you’d …
    so do i! you’d think they would, and make it something like going through snow piles i don’t know but you are right, they should have done a new one!

  19. By eluve59 on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    no you don’t. if …
    no you don’t. if you read the description, he says it just replaces the leopard system and coding, while leaving your files intact.

  20. By ibpointless2 on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    I just wish they …
    I just wish they did a new intro video :(

  21. By fxSplash on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    Good vid…. I find …
    Good vid…. I find it weird u have your Dock on the right side of the screen, but hey what ever works for u.
    BTW what camera are u using to shoot this?

  22. By RRReviews on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    I’m glad Apple …
    I’m glad Apple keeps putting out great software like this.

  23. By SuburbianKnights on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    I am really stingy …
    I am really stingy and don’t want to back up my files. Do I have too? If I don’t will it erase all my data? Or is this just a precaution.

  24. By supergamer2346 on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    Yeah, I had …
    Yeah, I had 262.89GB Free before and 292.88GB Free After. I LOVE Snow Leopard.

  25. By kdub275 on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    i got around 17 …
    i got around 17 gigs back. i was just surprised as you! gotta love apple =]

  26. By roeyboy on Sep 1, 2009 | Reply

    at first you had …
    at first you had 234 gigs total now you have 250.

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