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Apple Offers Cheap Jaguar Server Upgrade for XServe

Posted by pudge on from the it-does-not-help-me-though-so-it-still-sucks dept.

MaxVlast writes "Macintouch is reporting that Apple is extending the Mac OS X Up-to-Date and Mac OS X Server Up-to-Date programs to include Jaguar Server upgrades for just $19.95 in response to intense criticism. This is good news to people who just bought an expensive XServe with expensive Mac OS X Server who don't very much want to pay the full upgrade price." Apple also added that people who bought Mac OS X 10.1 retail, by itself, can get an upgrade if purchased July 17 or later.

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  1. Very Minor Changes by tbmaddux · · Score: 4, Informative
    For regular MacOS X, all that has changed is the $19.95 (which is "free" in Apple terms) upgrade to 10.2 for people who purchase retail copies of MacOS X 10.1.x between the MWNY keynote and when Jaguar comes out. This makes sense, since otherwise nobody would bother to purchase existing on-shelf copies of MacOS X between then and now.

    It's the same for MacOS X Server, with the notable exception that all owners of XServe machines can get the "free" upgrade, no matter when they bought their machine.

    For everyone else, the full pricetag applies. Before MacOS X, Apple used to provide upgrade rebates of $20 or $30. You sent in one of those "software coupons" and got a check in the mail. Those days appear to be gone since the advent of MacOS X.

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  2. 50 bucks off. by iomud · · Score: 4, Informative

    Amazon is offering a $50 mail in rebate for jaguar as part of a back to school promotion. Looks legit to me *shrug*

  3. Re:Not up to snuff by pi+radians · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think Apple customers are used to getting their bug fixes for free.

    They are getting them for free. Jaguar isn't a bug fix.

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  4. Re:Not up to snuff by foobar104 · · Score: 4, Informative

    If that's the case, then why isn't it version 1.2 instead of 10.2?

    Because there was never a version 1.0 of Mac OS X. The first version of Mac OS X was version 10.0. That's easy to understand: the previous version of Mac OS (actually an entirely different product) was 9.0, so the next version (a new product) was called 10.0.

    The branding ("Mac OS X") is separate from the version number ("10.2").