OSX Lion out today $29.99

[El Diablo]

Originally Posted by bat_collector

is it true you had to buy snow leopard and couldn't upgrade without it?

just checked, and yes you do. So lion doesn't seem such of a good price all of a sudden! it's stupid have to buy the upgrade to SL only to then pay again to upgrade to lion. Rip off. They could easily make it so you just go straight to lion, typical apple money grabbing.

[Vince-Vell]

So its $30 for SL and then $30 for Lion.

Or wait for lion on flash drive for $60 and its still cheaper then any version of Windows upgrade.

[Jesse321]

It just finished installing on my MacBook ... going to sign on have it going on my home computer.

[bat_collector]

I had to upgrade my memory to 2 GB as well.

but that only benefits me, as my computer is running faster than it was!

[Jesse321]

Originally Posted by El Diablo

just checked, and yes you do. So lion doesn't seem such of a good price all of a sudden! it's stupid have to buy the upgrade to SL only to then pay again to upgrade to lion. Rip off. They could easily make it so you just go straight to lion, typical apple money grabbing.

Just for point of reference, with Windows, you couldn't get Windows 7 to work right if you didn't upgrade it to Vista first ... while a direct upgrade from XP to 7 was possible, you didn't have all the functionality of it unless you either bought the FULL version which (at the time) was 3 times the price, or upgraded to Vista first, and then to 7, which would have ended up costing the same as paying like 600 somthing bucks when it first came out for the full version.

So, lets do the math, 2 - 30 dollars upgrades from Apple (total 60 dollars) vs. just 1 from Windows ... just saying ... which is the better bargain?