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I am actually reviewing the service I received by ordering through Amazon.com, and purchasing from The Selling Raj. It was determined that my poor little tired Tiger could not handle this upgrade; that it was too old and therefore the information I had been given was incorrect for my circumstances. I am giving my wonderful Tiger to my grandson for his use in grammar school. I was given incorrect information that the Leopard would load to my Tiger. I was very pleased with the ordering and purchasing process through Amazon.com and The Selling Raj, and I look forward to future business with you. The program downloaded to my Mac Tiger without problems. I cannot review the product because I cannot use it. So, the wonderful people at Mac restored my Tiger to its previous working condition.
However, when I tried to download the current upgrades, my computer crashed. I completed the process about four times then took it to the Mac Store for a Mac Genius to check. I purchased a new Snow Leopard for myself and all is well in my world once again.Cannot rate the product but can rate the service. Thank-you.
I just verified S. Hiss' comments from April. If you are a registered Mac owner, you can avoid the over inflated prices of some of the 3rd party resellers. Call Apple at 1-800.my.apple where you can purchase a copy of OS 10.5.6 for $129, plus tax, with free shipping.
It could take a while but it was a background process that I could work on top of while it searched the HDs. First Networking, it used to be 4 button clicks on the mac, then type in the IP address on the PC and PC and Mac are connected. If I wanted another drive I'd click that drive, wait for it to spin up to speed and then save to it. This happens about every half hour.Third is the Search box in the corner of the finder windows. I'd type in my search and select all the drives then it would search them all. I've taken all of Microsoft's Certified Service Engineer classes and I'm well versed in Networking and I cannot get it to connect. I've tried with 2 completely different setups following every direction Apple and the web can provide and I've got nothing.
I'm using a thumb drive to transfer files between them. Second is hard drives, I've got a lot of external hard drives connected, in previous OS X versions when I went to save, the last drive that I had saved to would be the one that spun up to speed and the one that popped up first in the save window. I was forced to get this upgrade to continue using software that I've been using for years and 10.5 and up have introduced a large host of problems that weren't problems in previous OS Xs. And they don't spin up at the same time, it's sequential, so I'm waiting about a minute every time I want to save something just because they've randomly changed how the save works. Also for some reason it will randomly cause my hard drives that are not in use to spin up to speed, which wouldn't be so bad except that every time it does it the computer halts for a couple of seconds. This used to be an incredibly simple and powerful tool to search all my hard drives. If there is even the slightest chance you will want your computer to do some heavy lifting and possibly use multiple drives then do NOT upgrade. What was a 15 minute background process is now a 45 minute process that takes my full attention.If you do no intense processing, have only 1 or 2 hard drives, and have no PC to network and you really feel the need to give Apple money for no reason than by all means buy this.
Now it's about 12 settings on the Mac side as well as deep diving into the PC settings to make another 6 adjustments and even then it's nearly impossible. Now I have to manually search EVERY drive by selecting it, typing in my search and then waiting for the search to complete. In 10.5 and up they've changed it. I now have to wait for ALL my drives to spin up to speed before I can save anything. Then going to the next drive and repeating. I've been a Mac convert for 10 years and 10.5+ has me seriously considering switching back to PCs.
I sent a message to the disk supplier and he said he would refund my money for the disk but not the shipping. No Apple logo, no identification, nothing. The disk that arrived had no markings on it in a shipping envelope with nothing but my name and address and a return address of the seller. I guess it was my fault for him mailing a bad disk. I tried it in my computer with no luck. I took it over to my son, who is a computer scientist for IBM, he said it was a copy of an Apple disk and it was corrupted. He also said to throw the disk away since it had no value and not return it. I did get my purchase price back and felt lucky to get that even though I didn't get my postage.
Overall, I feel like it was a good purchase. It works well, and the Mac's doc is configurable (to a certain extent), like Windows taskbar.
I only use it for my Graphic Design work, and continue using my PC for everything else. As someone who has always been a pc (Windows) person, I got a used Mac and ordered the OS X 10.5.6 for it because I'm persuing a Graphic Design degree (and Macs are preferred in that field).
I'm happy with the condition of what I ordered and didn't have any problems with the installation of the software. Bottom line is: it does what it's supposed to.
Owning a Mac hasn't changed my view that Macs aren't better than pcs, just different and more expensive. So I have mine set up with what I want.
And it will serve the task that I bought it for.
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