To upgrade or not - opinions appreciated

Hello all,
I purchased my first Mac in March 2007, it came with Tigersand I'm still using Tiger 10.4.11 It's solid as a rock, never problems with the OS or Macbook Pro. I passed up the upgrade to Leopard because I was not on Tiger very long and thought - why upgrade ?
Now Snow Leopard is out - Tiger is still supported... The main reason why I was going to upgrade is because it's a 64 Bit OS - run quicker, and I will upgrade my memory for the 1GB I have to 4GB.
I'm not a "power user", I use the Mac for email, heavy calendar usage for appointments, Internet, Open Office, I use Parallels, and I have a Me account to sync my Macbook Pro with my I-Phone.
Do you recommend upgrading - or wait until Apple stops support on Tiger ?
Also ---- I read ---- where I can use the "upgrade" version, even though I have Tiger, it's an "honor" system - anybody try this on Tiger ?
Thanks,
Bob

First, I agree with Tom Gewecke that the performance improvement in Snow Leopard are very noticeable -- at least for me, this has been true on each of the Macs I have upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard. However, I have not upgraded a Mac that supports Tiger to Snow Leopard, so keep that in mind.
Perhaps more importantly, I can't live without the new features of Leopard vs. Tiger now that I have gotten used to using them -- they increase my performance dramatically, & that is where I think the big gains are. Snow Leopard adds a few new features to the OS too, & I'm starting to appreciate them as well. (For instance, I regularly use the new built in text substitution feature to automatically expand unique abbreviations into whole words or phrases -- I never have to type out "Snow Leopard" or "Disk Utility" in these forums but instead just type "@SL" or "@DU" & they are automatically expanded for me.) You mention that you are a heavy calendar user, so you might find Snow Leopard's improved support for WebDAV in iCal useful -- since I run a local WebDAV server for use with iCal, I noticed this immediately.
Secondly, it is not true that there are only a few 64 bit apps available. Almost all the bundled apps that come with Snow Leopard like Safari & especially Finder are both 64 & 32 bit capable. Since you indicate you have a Core Two Duo CPU in your Mac, Snow Leopard will load the 64 bit code & you should see a substantial increase in responsiveness for these familiar apps. However, note that you do not need to upgrade to Snow Leopard to use 4 GB of RAM -- both Tiger & Leopard support that as well. The difference is that Snow Leopard can support more than 2 GB +per application+, but you will rarely if ever need that much for any common app you are likely to run.
Thirdly, I would never advise anyone to violate anybody's software license agreements; however, do not confuse Apple's marketing material with the Snow Leopard EULA. The $29 U.S. retail product is not an "upgrade" version & in fact is exactly like (& comes with exactly the same EULA) as the OS product in the Box Set, which is just 3 products boxed together & sold at a modest discount vs. the price of each item bought separately. Some users don't seem to understand that because of this, if Tiger users were violating the EULA by using the $29 version, they would be doing the same by using the same Snow Leopard disc with the same EULA in the Box Set. Obviously, this is not true.
Part of the confusion about this is because there is an "upgrade" product, but it is not sold at retail & is clearly marked as such. Just make sure you avoid it & buy a retail Snow Leopard product & this will not apply to you.
So, my answer to the upgrade or not question is a resounding "yes!" Just be sure to buy an appropriate Snow Leopard product & to back up at least your user files before applying it. (Cloning the startup drive is better but not absolutely necessary.) Also be prepared to update third party apps, since some may need revision to work with Snow Leopard, & try to avoid any hacks or "enhancers" to the OS as much as possible, since these things are almost always OS version specific & can cause all sorts of problems when the OS changes.

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