Hey mac lovers,
i found this online. it is eligible in malaysia also where you need to fill up the form and pay RM39 for the upgrade.

Link:
http://www.asia.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/

*Please read the T&C carefully from the link:-
-This offer is not valid in conjunction with any other Mac OS offer from Apple.
-This program entitles the purchaser of a qualifying Macintosh computer purchased between 1 October 2007 and 29 December 2007, to upgrade to Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard.

great! been itching to buy a macbook pro...since only have to pay rm39 for the uptodate , maybe i could buy it now....

Questions:

1. If buy family pack how many sets of installation CD will be given?
2. How bout in terms of online registration, will it be complicated?

Been searching on the nwt and so far cannot find asnwers

i have the same itch and am thinking like you

..but wonder if the trouble of installing an OS two times (Tiger and then Leopard) is worth scratching the itch?

comments anyone?

Hmmm...that sounds troblesome. But we just have to pay extra for the upgrade (not owning two retail OS). Which is troblesome, costs some bucks. So no, I don't want to.

I'm planning to get an iMac soon, so I have to patient to wait till December or something.

Wow : http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html

All new features..

yeah i was told during my last visit to mac centre last week. There is a macbook pro left on the shop but i didnt buy it because i m waiting for the MAcbook pro with Leopard install
hopefully i can get mine new macbook pro next month

That's right, agreed with you there or it will release on da same day in worldwide

Hmmm...I think 26th October at 6pm is the time where only the US release? Then the next following days are other countries? And then all the worldwide shipping?

I don't except it to release on exact 26th when I'm not in US.

My faith about release dates for our country it's one week late, so it's early next month too.

Carin is right. I just called AppleMalaysia and the support agent told me, once the Leopard is launched, call AppleMalaysia Hotline 1800803638, and talk to the Customer Relation Officer. They will guide you from there.

Save your breath if you want to talk to Apple Reseller. The staffs either look blur and tell me a straight "No".

Huh, why would you need to install Tiger and Leopard?

A new mac comes preinstalled with Tiger. Just install Leopard once when you get it.

Or you could just wait a couple more weeks and save yourself that hassle.

hands itchy liao like other forummers here...
macbookpro here i come... in another month's time hopefully

i mean installing applications twice due to the change in OS.

This is what I did when Tiger was launched

Keep the original Panther partition. Installed Tiger on FireWire..Tested it out (fore few months and it was all okay , set)..Liked it..I backup'ed my home folder. Wiped the HDD and then installed it

1. There will be only ONE installation DVD.
2. Online registration should be straight forward since that the term "household" is quite subjective. I read from Apple's website that even when you live in the same apartment block, you are considered living in the "household".


The only setback is obviously the one DVD limitation, unless we duplicate the DVD....

Well installing apps is just a matter of drag n drop.

Personally, I backup my entire home folder nightly, and I also backup my Applications folder. The last time I had to reinstall Tiger due to a logic board failure, all I did was to copy everything back and I have all my apps and my settings and preferences for those apps and all back in one go.

Obviously there are a couple of apps which are less straightforward, but for the most part, it's that simple.

Seriously though, I still think it's more worthwhile to just wait.

Yeah, i am definately watiing for Leopard Pre Install on the new macbook pro. So i guess it will arrive after apple msia clear their old stock.
the disadvantages is u only have Leopard install and u can't revert back to Tiger.
Either u buy now with Tiger Pre install and then apple apply for free upgrade for leopard with RM 70 (not sure the amount of money need to pay for postage)

I agree, more worthwhile to tunggu...
to me, more work should mean spend less money...
but in this case, spend additional money for upgrade and then have to do all the installation again...haiya...

it all depends on how itchy....fortunately, my current powerbook is still doing well, although the hard disk space is reducing day by day...keep on telling myself..this will be my last 1-2 months with my baby i bought in 2004...This powerbook has served me well...
all these will reduce the itch la...hahaha

BTW, can you provide step by step how did you restore from you backup after the logic board problem? i presume that at that time, you already reinstall the Tiger OS. Then, you just drag home + application folder from your back up drive to replace the home and application folder in your computer?

Wonder if these drag and drop for applications/library/key/ it will work that easily for Leopard-Tiger as compared to Panther-Tiger

thanks!

This post has been edited by nando: Oct 18 2007, 12:32 PM

Well, the applications bit, the most important part is actually the Application Support folders that has all your app preferences and license keys stored in it. They are kept in two places:

/Users/<your user>/Library/Application Support/

/Libarry/Application Support/

Basically, since I backup my entire /Users/<my username>/ folder, the above user library folder gets backed up as well. Most of the user installed applications store their preferences and support files there, although not all. Back up those two.

Also if you have installed screensavers, check these few too:

/Library/Screen Savers/
/Library/Preference Panes/
/Library/QuickTime/ <- for QT plugins
/Library/Spotlight/ <-- for spotlight plugins

I backed up all my data to a HFS+ formatted external disk, so permissions and etc are all preserved the way it should, and I do my daily backups via rsync.

For Applications, I just copy over the apps that I often use into a separate folder in my backup disk. I only copy applications that are non-bundled with all Macs into it (meaning, I leave out stuff like Address Book, iCal, etc).

Obviously this won't work for ALL applications, stuff like Adobe Photoshop or something just won't work like that. But most OS X apps do, and that saves you a lot of hassle of opening .dmg files one after another to copy them back in one by one.

Apps are backward compatible, so don't worry about that. The only thing that's new for Leopard-only apps are applications that make use of the new frameworks and features that are new to Leopard.

Thanks mate!