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From: MNRebecca on 5 Apr 2010 17:27
Poor me. I've been assigned to acquire the first official employee
iPad on campus and demonstrate it to the Chancellor. We both have
older Macs, so I have to bring my system (Tiger 10.4.11 on a 2007
iMac6,1 with 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processing) up to date (iPad
requires 10.5.8 or better for synching). On the advice of the Apple
Store, I'm purchasing the Snow Leopard Mac Box Set (because our
institutionally-licensed version of Leopard does not include the iLife
apps I'll presumably need to synch to the iPad). Since I'm only
bringing the system up to date, not replacing the computer, I don't
want to reload all my apps and data, so I'm opting for upgrade over
clean install. I've heard pros and cons about that. Some people
swear it goes smoothly. Others say, "Bite the bullet and do a clean
install." Thoughts?
From: nospam on 5 Apr 2010 17:35
In article
<475c1aff-4ffd-4ced-8042-a7e6bb0b3ad8(a)x12g2000yqx.googlegroups.com>,
MNRebecca <webbrl(a)morris.umn.edu> wrote:

> Since I'm only
> bringing the system up to date, not replacing the computer, I don't
> want to reload all my apps and data, so I'm opting for upgrade over
> clean install. I've heard pros and cons about that. Some people
> swear it goes smoothly. Others say, "Bite the bullet and do a clean
> install." Thoughts?

make a backup before upgrading, check for any disk corruption, check to
see if any of your apps need to be updated for snow leopard and then
let the installer do its thing. the chances are very high there will be
no problems and all your apps and data will be where you expect. if
not, you have the backup.
From: BreadWithSpam on 5 Apr 2010 19:03
MNRebecca <webbrl(a)morris.umn.edu> writes:

> requires 10.5.8 or better for synching). On the advice of the Apple
> Store, I'm purchasing the Snow Leopard Mac Box Set (because our
> institutionally-licensed version of Leopard does not include the
> iLife apps I'll presumably need to synch to the iPad). Since I'm

You don't need the iLife apps aside from iTunes. And iTunes
is available without buying the rest of the set.

It's a free download, for Windows or Mac:
<http://www.apple.com/itunes/>

That said, I believe you won't regret getting the iLife package.
I use iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD regularly. (I've never used
GarageBand, fwiw).

> only bringing the system up to date, not replacing the computer, I
> don't want to reload all my apps and data, so I'm opting for upgrade
> over clean install. I've heard pros and cons about that. Some
> people swear it goes smoothly. Others say, "Bite the bullet and do
> a clean install." Thoughts?

I've had no problems with it.

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From: MNRebecca on 6 Apr 2010 09:17
On Apr 5, 6:03 pm, BreadWithS...(a)fractious.net wrote:

> You don't need the iLife apps aside from iTunes.

I'm betting the only way you can transfer photos from computer to iPad
is by using iPhoto...
From: sbt on 6 Apr 2010 10:39
In article
<21597376-0715-49cc-a7f3-9983d20315f6(a)z11g2000yqz.googlegroups.com>,
MNRebecca <webbrl(a)morris.umn.edu> wrote:

> On Apr 5, 6:03�pm, BreadWithS...(a)fractious.net wrote:
>
> > You don't need the iLife apps aside from iTunes.
>
> I'm betting the only way you can transfer photos from computer to iPad
> is by using iPhoto...

You lose your bet. The transfer is controlled via the Photos tab in
iTunes that appears when you select the iPad from the Devices section
of the source list. Your choices include iPhoto Library and a specified
folder hierarchy, so if you manage your photos outside of iPhoto, you
can still transfer them via iTunes.

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Spenser
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