Clutha wrote:
It's my understanding that I need to load leopard before going to SL, but I'm willing to be corrected 🙂
I was going to correct you, but there was something stuck in the back of my mind (lot of stuff back there, some accessible, some not 😉 ) and a quick search turned this up from Apple Legal:
C. Leopard Upgrade Licenses. If you have purchased an Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard license, then subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer *as long as that computer has a properly licensed copy of Mac OS X Leopard already installed on it.* If you have purchased a Family Pack Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard license, then subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-branded computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household (as defined above), are used by persons who occupy that same household, and each such computer has a properly licensed copy of Mac OS X Leopard already installed on it. The Family Pack Upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard License does not extend to business or commercial users.
http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macosx106.pdf
So yes, you
can upgrade directly from Tiger to SL, but legally you need to do it via the "boxed set," not the Upgrade disc. I don't know what Leopard is selling for these days, but it's likely less expensive going that route plus the Upgrade SL; the downside is that you'll have older iLife apps.
Message was edited by: tjk