What is involved in upgrading an OS? Easy or Hard?

Question

People are saying that Leopard won't be out until Oct. If I buy Macbook now and upgrade later how do I do it? Is it easy? Will I lose all my software (Mac Office) or everything on my hard drive when I upgrade. Is it as easy as putting in a disk, making a few clicks, and waiting a couple minutes? You don't have to go into details because im not actually doing it, but I might need to. And I just wanna know if it is hard or easy because Ive never done it before.

Thanks

Answer 1

These days, very easy. Essentially "Next, answer a question, next". Don't let technicians fool you out of >$50!

Answer 2

If it's like upgrading from Panther to Tiger, which it should be, then yes, it's that easy. You can keep all of your software and documents. A few clicks, wait about 10-20 minutes and you're good to go.

Answer 3

It was purdy easy, for me, to upgrade the OS - just copied off my personal stuff to a CD, upgraded the OS, and copied the CD of personal stuff back on.

The hardest danged part, though, was re-installing all the software! (Gotta do that too, ya know!) Make a list of everything you have - you might not remember which solitaire games you have that you haven't used for two months but you really want to keep, or that really neat little paint program, or that must-have note editor, and on, and on. And make sure to check with the vendors! All THAT's the time-consuming part.

All-in-all, took me a week.

Answer 4

I upgraded mine from 10.3 to 10.4 and it worked GREAT. I just clicked a few buttons and when it was done, everything still worked the same. NO compatibility issues.

Answer 5

yes its that easy

point load n click

follow the directions once you insert cd