How do I get my new Snow Leopard 10.6.3 upgrade to be 10.6.8?

Earlier today I backed up my leopard (on my new external hard drive, $89.99) and installed my new Snow Leopard upgrade (purchased from Apple for $19.99). They sent me 10.6.3, however, it looks like I need 10.6.8 to get the new itunes which was my reason for upgrading in the first place. My son got the ipod touch 5th generation ($225) which requires the new itunes. How do I get my new Snow Leopard 10.6.3 upgrade to be 10.6.8? The price tag is adding up quickly!

Here you go, http://support.apple.com/downloads/#Mac%20OS%20X%2010.6.8

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How can I get rid of Snow Leopard?

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I am now happy enough to use Lion full time but I cannot seem to manipulate the partitions in any way. Do I need to re-install Lion on the HD over Snow Leopard? Will that get rid of the existing Lion partition?
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rowanyarn wrote:
When Lion was released I installed it in it's own partition on the HD of my Macbook Pro. I can change between starting with Snow Leopard or Lion by choosing either " start up with Mac OS X 10.6.8 on Mackintosh HD" or Mac OS 10.7.1 on Lion.
I am now happy enough to use Lion full time but I cannot seem to manipulate the partitions in any way. Do I need to re-install Lion on the HD over Snow Leopard? Will that get rid of the existing Lion partition?
Ok, this is what happened
1: You had Snow Leopard already installed which takes the first (and fastest) part of the hard drive
2: You added another partition, formatted it HFS and installed Lion into it, likely there was no Recovery Partition installed when this occurred, Lion takes the second half of the hard drive which is slower.
Now you want to get rid of the Snow Leopard partition and merge the two partitions together, unfortunately this is not going to occur with Disk Utility or even renaming Snow Leopard "BOOTCAMP" changing it's format to MSDOS and using Bootcamp to merge the two partitions.
Also you need to address having the Lion Recovery Partition installed and moving Lion to the front part of the drive and utilizing all the space on the drive again.
What your going to have to do is Carbon Copy Cloner both Lion and Snow each to their own blank HFS formatted external drives and disconnect.
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Carbon Copy Cloning defragments and optimizes on the fly by writing the files and folders according to their alphabetical order in the root directory, thus Applications is first and Users is last (Users being the most subject to change). As drives are fastest at the very front and slower as you work inwards, Applications and System will be faster (as they are smaller than Users) and Users files loading and write speeds will depend upon how much there is, which a person can easily control. As a result the boot drive stays optimized longer.
For more performance tips read my guide
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16226340#16226340
The Snow Clone is a extra bootable backup and in case you decide to clone that to a second partition later.

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My wife has a slightly older intel based iMac running Snow Leopard. The machine is too old for Lion. The family has been a long time user of MobileMe and we updated to iCloud when it was released. This seems to have created a problem with iCal, which can't connect to an appropriate server. I've tried two different servers that I have found mentioned in forums.
p06-caldav.icloud.com
caldav.icloud.com
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Officially you can't sync calendars on Snow Leopard, but there are unofficial workarounds. In addition to the correct server address, you also need the dedicated number for your account.
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Commercial disks, which Apple uses, are pressed and cannot degrade like that. If this was a brand new Mac, then either someone switched out the disks, or they were stained in some other manner. If you bought it used, then it's likely you were given copies. If they are original disks, they should be gray with white silk screened lettering. Anything else is a copy.
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Insert the Snow Leopard DVD and hold the C key during startup. The Mac should boot from the CD/DVD drive into the installer.
Follow the prompts, erase the disk and install OSX Snow Leopard.

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Restore from the backups you made before upgrading.

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It is Intel Only (As In only works with Snow Leopard).
Reports here vary mainly because people come here looking for help so it is a some what distorted view. (we never get to here from people who had no issue setting it up).
Some have reported issues trying so set up "accounts" using Apple IDs they already use elsewhere.
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HT1338 My Mac Book Pro is currently runnng OS X v10.5.8. When I check for updates by clicking the apple icon it tells me that my computer is up to date. What is the easiest way to upgrade to OS X Lion? Do I need to get OS X Snow Leopard first?

My Mac Book Pro is currently runnng OS X v10.5.8. When I check for updates by clicking the apple icon it tells me that my computer is up to date. What is the easiest way to upgrade to OS X Lion? Do I need to get OS X Snow Leopard first?

Yes, there's been no updates to 10.5.8 for quite awhile, next is paid Upgrades.
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http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
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