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Windows 7 Pricing announced

Jun 25th, 2009
by Amish_Geek.
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ars technica lists the new windows 7 announced pricing structure. I’m intrigued, as I’m still running Windows XP on my home computer, and within Parallels on my Macbook and my iMac at work.  Windows 7 might be the first Microsoft [software] product I’ll purchase in almost 8 years, ever since I bought Windows XP.

From everything I’ve read and seen (I have yet to download and install a copy of the beta/release candidate), Windows 7 blows both XP and Vista out of the water.  We’ll see if it holds a candle to MacOS, especially with the SnowLeopard release.  I applaud Apple and their pricing structure, only charging $29 for an upgrade from Leopard to SnowLeopard. Add that to the fact that a retail “Family Pack” of MacOS can be installed on up to 5 machines for only $199…  Apple has their software pricing right!

my Macbook gets Leopard

Oct 9th, 2008
by Amish_Geek.
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I had been wanting to upgrade my 1st gen black macbook to Leopard since it came out.  Last January I switched from a Dell desktop to a 24″ iMac running Leopard for work, and I just LOVE Leopard!  But I hadn’t taken the opportunity to upgrade my Macbook from Tiger to Leopard.

Finally I took the plunge, but not without some bumps & bruises along the way.  When I tried upgrading the first time, the installer said I needed 6.4gb of free space, so I freed up 7gb and ran the installer.  When booting the first time, I got the dreaded light blue screen of nothingness.  Rebooting into the installer then showed 11.2gb of space needed to upgrade.

That’s just great! now I’m left with a laptop that wont boot, and no way to install anything or free up free space!  I decided to ditch my 15gb bootcamp partition that I had made over a year ago, but never booted into.  Bye bye native windows on my mac! I guess I’ll just keep using Parallels!

Once Leopard installed and booted from my 15gb partition, I was able to back up my entire hard drive (which I know I should have done in the first place before I did ANYTHING).   Then I proceeded to wipe my entire drive, and install fresh from scratch.

Now Leopard is up and running, and I’ve restored my backed up data, and I’m a happy camper.  I must say, that I’m not as impressed with Leopards performance on my macbook as I am on my iMac.  But then again, I’m still just on 1gb of RAM with my macbook.  Time to go ram shopping to see if I can hold out for another year before replacing it with a Macbook Pro.