Hello,
Sorry if I offend anyone by providing pricing via the C-REPs and Apple list-serves; this is done to inform and not as a sales pitch.
This is a notice to all those holding an Apple Maintenance Program (AMP) licence for Mac OS X Server. You should be receiving a single Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server DVD-Media set on or after the official ship date of October 26. It will be sent directly from Apple Inc. to the address you provided the BookStore, which appears on your licence agreement. If you require additional media sets, you may order them via the BookStore for $19.00/ea (plus taxes); please provide your AMP licence number when doing so.
Documentation sets are also available for Mac OS X Server for $26.00/ ea (plus taxes); you will get one under your AMP Server licence.
For those of you who chose to participate in the limited campus AMP for Mac OS X client, please communicate via your LAN Coordinator, or in the absence of such a person contact me directly, regarding the number of DVD-Media sets you will require for your office. Mac OS X client DVD media sets will cost $19.00/ea (plus taxes).
For those of you who do not have a AMP for Mac OS X Client or Server, you may order boxed product from the BookStore for $85.00/ea (plus taxes).
We would like to remind those people who are intending to upgrade of the following concerns.
1. Please compare you system specifications with the system requirements at Apple's website prior to purchases and/or installing (http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/).
2. Make a complete backup of your system(s) prior to upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5. If you do not know how to create a back-up please contact our service department (474-7010), and for a service fee they can create a back-up of your system.
3. Should you be upgrading your primary computer, it is only prudent that you wait a week or two before installing the new operating system. This should provide sufficient time for the manufacturers of the software you use on a daily basis the opportunity to publish "know incompatibility" issue(s) with their respective products and the new Mac OS; should there be any.
For those of you looking to purchase a new Apple Macintosh computer, the "Mac OS X Up-To-Date" program has be initiated and states the following, "A Macintosh computer qualifies for this program if it was sold by an Apple Authorized Reseller or Apple Inc. between October 1, 2007, and December 29, 2007, and does not include Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard." Details of the upgrade program can be found here (http:// www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/).
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this transition, please contact me.
Regards, Doug
------------- Doug Hamilton, BA, MA, APP Senior Computer Consultant Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba 204-474-6196 (Ph.) 204-474-7556 (Fax) http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/