How To: Snow Leopard Upgrade/Install (Simple)

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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[Rafayuteh]

I have a question, if i install this on my mac os X 1.5.8, will it delete all my files? or will it just upgrade and keep my files?(photos, apps,msn ALL the stuff)

PLEASE answer me, if you do, i'll subscribe

[therevivedone]

@Rafayuteh All your files/apps/etc will remain intact. The only thing that will change are your OS files.

[RollingNashville]

Can someone tell me if i can upgrade from OS X Tiger (ver. 10.4.11) to OS X snow Leopard. do i have to already have OS X leopard installed or can i just upgrade it without Leopard. Since OS X Leopard is not sold by apple anymore

[ri6195ch]

do i actually need to put all my files on a harddrive. will the upgrade delete all my files?

[bluedragonfire123]

will it work on my Apple G4 tower computer? i know it is old, but can i upgrade it or is is cheaper to buy a new one?

[revinriley]

@khoraski Mac Only, sorry.

[khoraski]

Could I install this on any machine, or only a Macintosh? If I put together my own computer or just partitioned my hard drive on a Windows, would the installation disc work?

[iTtechCesar127]

forgot to mention i have a mac mini with 2g. of ram will it work ?

[iTtechCesar127]

i dont have the install disc but i do have the .dmg file will it work as a DVD ?

[HDinstantreplay]

PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION!!

When I upgrade, because I like movie editing, will it change to imovie 11? please tell me it does!

[ingermarien]

Is it possible to update from 10.5.8 to Lion?

I have a CD i got with my MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard on it, but I don't know if I can upgrade my regular MacBook with that same CD... What do you think?