Apple relies on the honor system?
There seems to be a discrepancy in this string ...
Can you just buy or borrow someone else's Snow Leopard and install it on
any Mac or what?
db
mike wrote:
*However, in contrast to Microsoft—which offers a confusing array of full
and upgrade versions of Windows, all of them requiring that users enter a
unique serial number in order to prove they’re not pirates—Apple continues
to rely on the honor system for Mac OS X. Not only does Snow Leopard not
require the entry of any serial numbers, but the standard version of Snow
Leopard is a bootable “full install” disc that doesn’t actually check for
the presence of Leopard in order to install. This also means that if, at a
later time, you want to wipe your hard drive and reinstall Snow Leopard, you
won’t have to first install Leopard and then run a separate Snow Leopard
upgrade on top of it. (That sound you hear is a thousand IT managers sighing
with relief.)*
That's from the macworld review, Tom linked...apparently never read it, just
linked it since it was from a known MFB site. Seems they are saying, no
indeed, you do not need leopard to install to me. Unless I'm reading it
wrong.
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 9:59 AM, t.piwowar <t...@tjpa.com> wrote:
On Aug 29, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Jordan wrote:
This notebook has Leopard, but I did a migration from My iMac when I got
it. I'm thinking of getting a fresh start with this hard drive with a clean
custom install. So is the $30 version of Snow Leopard a complete OS, or
would I have to install Leopard and then Snow?
The installer is an upgrade so it needs to see a previous OS, Leopard, or
some people say Tiger works too. Reports are that it will work if you show
it an older OS on an external drive and will then install a clean OS on the
internal drive.
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