How can I upgrade to Snow Leopard from Leopard?

This seems easy, but I tried to download, and I was instructed to buy it. So I went to the apple store, and they told me that I just have to download it at home and they don't sell it in stores anymore. I insisted that I'd tried, and he said no, it is definitely a download now. I came home and discovered that I am supposed to download it from the mac app store, which you can only get with snow leopard.

I just cracked and decided I should get lion and apple appears desperately committed to keepig me from buying anything.

macBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Nov 5, 2011 1:52 PM

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Nov 5, 2011 1:55 PM in response to hollyhollyholly

Snow Leopard is not available as a download, only on a DVD. Lion is available as a download, but only after you have installed Snow Leopard.

Stedman

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Nov 5, 2011 1:59 PM in response to stedman1

Snow Leopard DVDs are hard to come upon. You might try checking Mac support stores, or EBay.

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Nov 5, 2011 2:00 PM in response to Rysz

Just checked. Amazon still has them.

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Nov 5, 2011 2:02 PM in response to hollyhollyholly

Apple claims "in stock". Maybe Rysz understands the truth of that statement better than I.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A

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Nov 5, 2011 2:22 PM in response to steve359

Hey, if they re-stocked, get it fom them. The fact that Apple run out, is why most stores at Amazon sell the disks at a slight premium.

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Nov 5, 2011 2:24 PM in response to hollyhollyholly

Call Apple Phone Sales @ 1-800-MY-APPLE (1-800-692-7753). Should be $29.

 Cheers, Tom 😉

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