Panther upgrade disks on eBay

[Ph0eniX]

I'm currently running Jaguar and looking to upgrade to Panther. My question is: if Apple doesn't give any price brakes on upgrades, how come some of the people on eBay are claiming that they're selling an upgrade version and that the previous version of OS-X is required in order to install it?

[rcwire]

Possibly because they are not genuine OS disks perhaps?

[nikoniko]

if Apple doesn't give any price brakes on upgrades, how come some of the people on eBay are claiming that they're selling an upgrade version and that the previous version of OS-X is required in order to install it?

Power Mac G5 users can upgrade to Panther for "free", meaning they only have to pay $19.95 shipping and handling. These upgrade disks require a previous version of Mac OS X to be installed. People get the upgrade disk, burn themselves a copy of it to keep, then sell the original disk on eBay for more than $19.95. Or professional resellers (sometimes pawn shop owners with an eye for computers), wise in the ways of turning a profit, buy G5 machines back from people who made an expensive impulse purchase and want to unload them quickly, register for these upgrade disks themselves, and then resell them them separately from the machine, perhaps preinstalling 10.3 on the Mac but providing the buyer a disc for 10.2.

Cheers,
nikoniko

[Yukon Kid]

Geez you guys... think for a min.
the update disks are now outdated....lol
since i paid 19.95 for mine there have been several updates...
anyone care to reinstall win??? then go to the site to update all the patches......makes the origional disks a pain, so backing up the system is a much better way to do things.
I installed osx on my pc but it is not the same version as I have on my mac since i can't get online through windows yet.
Some people will sell the upgrade disks because they still have some value.
as for the "free" upgrade, it was a limited time offer so if you didn't get the upgrade then you would have to pay the same as the person with the G3, or G4 machines.

just wait til 10.4 is out and then see who gets the freebies.

[CaptainValor]

Speaking of 10.4, is there an information page on it anywhere? I'd like to see what new features it's offering.

[Ph0eniX]

if Apple doesn't give any price brakes on upgrades, how come some of the people on eBay are claiming that they're selling an upgrade version and that the previous version of OS-X is required in order to install it?

Power Mac G5 users can upgrade to Panther for "free", meaning they only have to pay $19.95 shipping and handling. These upgrade disks require a previous version of Mac OS X to be installed.

Thanks! ...I didn't know about this.

[nikoniko]

Thanks! ...I didn't know about this.

Ahh... looks like I'm only partly right, though. I didn't realize that was a limited-time offer which expired after Dec 31, '03.

Cheers,
nikoniko

[Dogan]

Speaking of 10.4, is there an information page on it anywhere? I'd like to see what new features it's offering.

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