Ok so I started a thread one or two topics below this one by now, asking where I could find a legitimate copy of Snow Leopard and thought I'd share what I was just told by Linda at CORE marketing. It needed it's own thread.
Anyways was in the area a decided to try the Woodlands Mall in Pretoria and try find Snow Leopard at either the Dions Wired or Incredible Connection. Nothing. Now correct me if I'm wrong but Snow Leopard was released early 2010 if memory serves and I know the upgrade was going for R300 odd. At the time I was pretty happy with my OEM Leopard that shipped with my R30000 MacBook PRO (5.1) and never really felt the urgency to upgrade. And it's not that I never planned to. My MacBook "Just worked" as the Apple jargon goes and I was in "if it ain't broke don't try and fix it" mode. After all isn't that what Apple is known for?
Anyways I decided to call up the iStore in Menlyn and what do you know they also didn't have it. I was told that they had Lion but had to remind the dullard on the other side that I needed Snow Leopard first in order to upgrade "eish!!!" I asked "Mo" what now and all I got was phone CORE and speak to marketing. Which is what I did.
So I get hold of Linda explain the situation and I'm told it's not really her department but she'll put me in contact with the product manager. After a few minutes she came back with an answer, which quite frankly knocked me for six!
Basically in a nut shell the 30k laptop that I bought from CORE legitimately through the legal channels at a 30% premium I might add is un-upgradeable. Yes you heard that right folks CORE in all their wisdom has created a new word UN-UPGRADEABLE. And here I thought their only purpose was to create a overinflated pricing model on Apple products and crap service!
So I put it to Linda at "Marketing" that basically what she was telling me is that the only way I could upgrade my copy of Leopard was to delve into the seedy underworld of Torrents and get it for free? Now of course she was not going to recommend that route but indirectly that's exactly what she was telling me. I asked her where I could get a legit copy of Snow Leopard and she said Apple inc. have stopped shipping Snow Leopard to them and not one person within the CORE group locally could help me. Not once was I asked for my contact details to see if they could somehow do something for me if they "applied" their minds a bit, nope it's CORE after-all what the hell was I thinking.
Anyway it's not the last on this subject. Not going to let something so simple ruin what otherwise has been a pleasant experience using Apple products. I just can't believe that as I type here there is no legitimate way of upgrading my OSX from Leopard to at the very least Snow Leopard. I'm dumb founded.
Anyways was in the area a decided to try the Woodlands Mall in Pretoria and try find Snow Leopard at either the Dions Wired or Incredible Connection. Nothing. Now correct me if I'm wrong but Snow Leopard was released early 2010 if memory serves and I know the upgrade was going for R300 odd. At the time I was pretty happy with my OEM Leopard that shipped with my R30000 MacBook PRO (5.1) and never really felt the urgency to upgrade. And it's not that I never planned to. My MacBook "Just worked" as the Apple jargon goes and I was in "if it ain't broke don't try and fix it" mode. After all isn't that what Apple is known for?
Anyways I decided to call up the iStore in Menlyn and what do you know they also didn't have it. I was told that they had Lion but had to remind the dullard on the other side that I needed Snow Leopard first in order to upgrade "eish!!!" I asked "Mo" what now and all I got was phone CORE and speak to marketing. Which is what I did.
So I get hold of Linda explain the situation and I'm told it's not really her department but she'll put me in contact with the product manager. After a few minutes she came back with an answer, which quite frankly knocked me for six!
Basically in a nut shell the 30k laptop that I bought from CORE legitimately through the legal channels at a 30% premium I might add is un-upgradeable. Yes you heard that right folks CORE in all their wisdom has created a new word UN-UPGRADEABLE. And here I thought their only purpose was to create a overinflated pricing model on Apple products and crap service!
So I put it to Linda at "Marketing" that basically what she was telling me is that the only way I could upgrade my copy of Leopard was to delve into the seedy underworld of Torrents and get it for free? Now of course she was not going to recommend that route but indirectly that's exactly what she was telling me. I asked her where I could get a legit copy of Snow Leopard and she said Apple inc. have stopped shipping Snow Leopard to them and not one person within the CORE group locally could help me. Not once was I asked for my contact details to see if they could somehow do something for me if they "applied" their minds a bit, nope it's CORE after-all what the hell was I thinking.
Anyway it's not the last on this subject. Not going to let something so simple ruin what otherwise has been a pleasant experience using Apple products. I just can't believe that as I type here there is no legitimate way of upgrading my OSX from Leopard to at the very least Snow Leopard. I'm dumb founded.
