About

The site has only one goal. Show you the installation of retail Snow Leopard OS X on Toshiba Satellite laptop (A100 series – to clarify).

You can treat it is as a complete guide or just reference.

Feel free to share your experience here.

Please just don’t tell me I should buy a Mac. Eventually I will do that in the future. For now I have my own reasons why I’m running Apple OS X on my Toshiba notebook. First of all I’m happy with my Toshiba. Don’t get me wrong I’m not a kind of specific brand fan person, but I never have any problems with hardware or whatever. Despite the fact the laptop is three years old (well, I upgraded few things – have a look here) is doing really good. I can say it meets my expectations.

The other reason is money (nothing original, hmm ?). Oh, wait ! Aren’t the Apple computers much more expensive than the PCs, even with better hardware and configuration ? Well….yes there are. But none of the other brand laptops have for example 10 hours single charge battery life. That’s huge difference for laptop users, especially traveling ones. That’s why sooner or later I will buy a Mac as soon as will have some extra 2000 $ to spend (for my desired configuration). For know as I don’t have this extra 2000 $ I want to experience some other benefits from Apple – OS X.

Here we go, smoothly moving to another reason. I’ve tried Windows XP, Vista and lately Windows 7. Honestly in my very personal opinion Windows is getting better, especially comparing Vista with 7, but still… it’s not perfect, not even close to perfection. OS X is not perfect as well. For sure there will be always something you can improve, but still… After trying Leopard before I’m simply not going back to Windows.

And ironically Apple operating system is cheaper than Windows OS. Just have a look at Windows store site and Apple site. The disc with Snow Leopard (which is not only the upgrade disc, but you can perform full clean installation from it) costs approximately 8 times less than Windows 7 Ultimate full install disc. So why not ?

Oh, there are also some legal issues to discuss here. During the installation you will be asked to agree with Apple terms and conditions. Just to quote:

You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so.

Oops, I’m on the dark side now. But I can promise to join the bright side once I’ll find these extra 2000 $. For now I bought original retail Snow Leopard disc, it’s mine, all mine and I’m going to do with it whatever I want.