<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Some tips:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html">http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html</a><br><div><br></div><div>1. 10.6 Snow Leopard <b>only runs on Intel based Apple computers</b> .... to check this go to the Apple Menu / About this Mac ... </div><div><br></div><div>... if it is a G3, G4 or G5 ... this NOT an Intel processor</div><div><br></div><div>2. You should have <b>1GB of RAM </b>or more. You'll see this also in the About this Mac window ... </div><div><br></div><div>3. <b> Back up</b> all your data with SuperDuper! , Time Machine or whatever backup tools you like.</div><div><br></div><div>4. Backup files <b>that are on your computer</b>.</div><div><br></div><div>5. The files that are on your computer, as discussed in points 3 and 4 <b>should be copied to another place</b> other than the computer that you are sitting in front of right now.</div><div><br></div><div>6. After successfully completing steps 3, 4 and 5 .... THEN ... <b>consider installing 10.6</b> on your Intel Mac ....</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Report back to us here on <b>what works and what does not</b> after the install.</div><div><br></div><div>If you do not need to install 10.6 and/or y<b>ou have a business that depends on you not being down</b> at all ... please do not install it until we report back to everyone our findings over the next few weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>Behind the scenes we have folks that are in the Apple Seeds program for testing Snow Leopard and they are very happy ....</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Apple User Group meeting in Cranberry Twp at MacOutfitters will be <b>devoted to discussing and demonstrating 10.6</b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="7"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 27px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;"><br></span></b></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 27px; "><b>So join us on Wednesday September 2, 7-9PM</b></div><div style="font-size: 27px; "><b><br></b></div><div style="font-size: 27px; "><b></b></div></div></body></html>