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While this works, it is a direct violation of the license agreement.
I agree, you shouldn't be telling people that they can upgrade straight from Tiger, it's actually forbidden by the licensing agreement and will eventually ruin it for the rest of us because Apple will have to make up the money somehow. If you have Tiger and you skip past Leopard you're essentially getting Leopard + Snow Leopard for $29. Increasing the cost of the next OS upgrade to make up for this issue could be how Apple decides to handle this. Buy the box set for $159, it's still cheaper than the deluxe editions of Microsoft Vista or Windows 7 and you get 6 great apps with it.

And best of all, you help insure Apple has an incentive NOT to stick horrible DRM like Windows Genuine Advantage on their discs and they can charge low low prices like they are for Snow Leopard, to those of us who did upgrade properly.
This information was published in Walter Mossberg's Wall Street Journal Article today. In fact, he directly states that Tiger users should forgo the boxed set and "save the $140" by buying this upgrade. I guess he didn't bother reviewing the license agreement either.

Apple should better protect their revenue (and their honest customers). The fact that this is even possible is a mistake. It may be in violation of the EULA, but if you are legitimately concerned with apple losing money from this rest assured it's not a huge concern of theirs. I love OS X to death but honestly the fact that they charge (usually a lot more than 29 bucks) for their annual update kind of gripes me. Windows service packs are free. Apple has never been very concerned with OS X licensing issues and never to my memory have ever used any sort of keys or registry codes. They don't care because it's money they shouldn't be making anyways and they are getting away with it. I hate windows with a passion but at least I don't have to buy it again every year if I want to keep it up to date. Take what apple gives you, because they're going to take everything they can from you.Apple definitely knew what they were doing when it comes to pricing and lack of license enforcement. They want to get Snow Leopard on as many computers as possible.I'm having a hard time taking this "review" seriously. First, the majority of it simply regurgitates Apple's marketing bullet points. We can read those on Apple's website, or even right here on Amazon's product page. I want to hear details about people's actual experiences - what really worked and what didn't work? What gave you some trouble and what pleasant surprises weren't mentioned in Apple's materials? As it is, there's nothing here that hasn't been discussed at length on Apple's site, in the press, and at the many Apple rumor websites.

Second, and more importantly, how am I supposed to believe a reviewer claiming that he installed Snow Leopard on a PowerBook? That claim is guaranteed to be 100% false, as Snow Leopard only supports Intel Macs. All PowerBooks are PowerPC.

I suspect our reviewer sloppily put together a list of features along with a few paragraphs suggesting he'd maybe seen them in action, hoping to get the coveted first review position at Amazon. I'm not buying itSorry you don't like my review. However, you are off base that I've not actually purchased Snow Leopard of installed it. I have. I own 5 macs across various eras and misspoke when I said I put it on a powerbook; it was a macbook. I bought a 5-pack of family licenses for home use as well as 7 single upgrades for the macs we use at the non-profit I work for. I've installed it on 2 computers so far and will have all of them upgraded by the middle of next week. I summarized some of what is in the extensive 4 pages of information provided by Amazon, as well as the other articles I've read online. Must people don't have the time or don't want to read all of the technical data, and providing them with some detail of what the upgrade gives them is fair and useful to non-tech heads. Sumarization is what reviews are about; that's why they don't read like product manuals.

I'll be upgrading and adding to the review as I use the OS. Sorry I don't have insightful comments (in your opinion) but that is no reason to basically insinuate that I am a liar. You are welcome to like or dislike any review including mine, but please don't act like I have dishonest intentions.
I agree completely. They could easily have disabled upgrading from Tiger if that's what they wanted to do; they know how to use DRM very well (i-tunes, etc.)You might want to send a letter to the Wall Street Journal and tell them the same thing, as well as LifeHacker and Gizmodo. This is being covered by major news outlets, I hardly think my review is taking away from Apple, who obviously has allowed this to occur. They are not new to DRM or using it effectively. They purposely left this backdoor open.