Mac OS X 10.1 Update Packaging

jambo

Just interested to know what the packaging looked like for the Mac OS X 10.1 Update. Mainly the package bought through Apple which included the Developer Tools but also the free package from stores.



I got mine direct from Apple in a plain brown envelope and am kinda p!ssed.



J :cool:

gorgonzola

It was a package almost exactly like the Public Beta package: thin white folder, big blue X on the front with a green aqua button saying "10.1" and inside, there was a desktop pic on one side and the CD on the other.



Nice packaging. I wonder why you didn't get it...

jambo

[quote]Originally posted by gorgonzola:

<strong>It was a package almost exactly like the Public Beta package: thin white folder, big blue X on the front with a green aqua button saying "10.1" and inside, there was a desktop pic on one side and the CD on the other.



Nice packaging. I wonder why you didn't get it...</strong><hr></blockquote>



Hmmm. That's really annoying



Did anyone else in the UK get no packaging?



J :cool:

synotic

I got the free version, my Aqua button was Graphite rather than green:



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[ 11-17-2001: Message edited by: Synotic ]</p>

jambo

[quote]Originally posted by Synotic:

<strong>I got the free version, my Aqua button was Graphite rather than green:



<a href="http://www.appleonlooker.com/largecover.jpg"; target="_blank"></a>



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[ 11-17-2001: Message edited by: Synotic ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



So even the freebie version had a folder!! I thought that part of the money I was paying for this "free" upgrade was to pay for packaging!!



J

mediaman

Humm! I didn't get the packaging either, it just came in a envelope.

Just another example how Apple UK loves to screw with it's customers



[ 11-17-2001: Message edited by: Mediaman ]</p>

sinewave

[quote]Originally posted by Synotic:

<strong>I got the free version, my Aqua button was Graphite rather than green:



</strong><hr></blockquote>



Same here

logan cale

It's just a piece of cardboard with some printing on it, nothing that great. I mean, it's nice, but nothing to get pissed about because you didn't get it.



Actually, never mind. I would be upset if I didn't get it too. I'm just sick, and my iBook is half dead right now, so I'm angry at Apple and everything else.

eman

[quote]Originally posted by Synotic:

<strong>I got the free version, my Aqua button was Graphite rather than green:



<a href="http://www.appleonlooker.com/largecover.jpg"; target="_blank"></a>



Click for a larger image...

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Mine also came with the Graphite aqua button.

ssmurphy

I have two versions of the update, The first from the Apple retail store that came inside a white folder like the ones above. The second came from the apple.com store and shiped in a large box that contaned a brown envlope with just the three cd's and the install manual.



You pay for the update and get less packaging than if you got the update for free.



Later

ssmurphy

eman

[quote] You pay for the update and get less packaging than if you got the update for free.<hr></blockquote>



Does anyone know why it's like that? I think it's kinda stupid.



[ 11-19-2001: Message edited by: EmAn ]</p>

belle

[quote]Originally posted by EmAn:

<strong>Does anyone know why it's like that? I think it's kinda stupid.</strong><hr></blockquote>

The fancy packaging for the free upgrades is to make it much more noticable when displayed in stores, so that people who don't monitor the progress of OS X as closely as us weirdos here go "Oooh, it's a new version of OS X, perhaps this one is fast?".



The bare bones packaging for the mail update is to keep shipping costs to a minimum, and generally those who order the upgrade this way know what they're asking for and what they're getting. Of course it still doesn't warrant the seemingly scandalous $20 charge.

logan cale

[quote]Originally posted by Belle:

<strong>Of course it still doesn't warrant the seemingly scandalous $20 charge.</strong><hr></blockquote>



No free updates warrant $20 for shipping unless you live on, like, Pluto or something.

gorgonzola

I must have been thinking of the green 10.1 button Apple.com was sporting just after launch; my package had a graphite button too.

sock puppet

hey, it coulda been worse:

jll

[quote]Originally posted by ssmurphy:

<strong>I have two versions of the update, The first from the Apple retail store that came inside a white folder like the ones above. The second came from the apple.com store and shiped in a large box that contaned a brown envlope with just the three cd's and the install manual.



You pay for the update and get less packaging than if you got the update for free.



Later

ssmurphy</strong><hr></blockquote>



Excuse me? You are complaining about less packaging?



Among the three CDs in the brown envelope is a full install of Mac OS 9.2.1 instead of the update only CD in the white folder, and perhaps you should count the CDs in the folder again: there are only two CDs - no Developer Tools CD.



[ 11-20-2001: Message edited by: JLL ]</p>