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MacOS X Upgrade Not Free Anymore?

Posted by timothy on from the little-f-free-even dept.

Jacek Fedorynski writes: "Remember when Steve Jobs said that the MacOS X 10.1 upgrade would be available to anyone to download for free and also on a CD for $20? Well, it seems that they changed their minds about the free download."

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  1. never free download by extra88 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    They never said 10.1 would be available for download, because of its size. The $20 charge is what they've charged for years in the Up-To-Date program which was how you got the current MacOS if your new Mac came with the previous version. For instance when I got a PowerMac 6500, it came with 7.5.5 but 7.6 had already come out. By sending a card and $20, they sent me a full 7.6 installation CD. If you adjust for inflation, you could say their fee has gone down :)

    My understanding is the $20 gets you a full 10.1 CD. What I'd like to see is an upgrade-only CD which could cost less (or nothing) and be passed out at Apple Stores and places like college computer stores then duplicated and shared by whoever cares to.