leopard in early '08 macbook pro: do you have to install the leapord cd on your macbook pro for yourself or does it come pre-installed?
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It is pre-installed. They send the sotware on two discs for future use if needed.
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Nope. Unfortunately it only comes with Snow Leopard and doesn't support anything later than it. I'm sure hackers will find a way of making it run, though.
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Greetings: I installed on a Mac Pro (1,1) with Lion 10.7.5. It fried my computer. I would leave it alone, especially after I spoke with a Mac repair type in Oklahoma City. Sorry.
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Simple answer, yes. I did a lot of research before buying this item, and I own a 2008 Macbook Pro. I bought Carbon copy cloner, cloned my hard drive, swapped the new drive in, and downloaded and installed a free trim enabler program, it actually was pretty easy, oh and I already had a external hard drive enclosure wich made cloning my drive easy. And it has been working great, glad I did it.I had read lots of other reviews from Mac owners, most saying they were glad they did it as well. if you do a google search, theres lots of information and even some videos showing you step by step. Check out OWC other world computing , but stick with this ssd rated very well. Simple answer, yes. I did a lot of research before buying this item, and I own a 2008 Macbook Pro. I bought Carbon copy cloner, cloned my hard drive, swapped the new drive in, and downloaded and installed a free trim enabler program, it actually was pretty easy, oh and I already had a external hard drive enclosure wich made cloning my drive easy. And it has been working great, glad I did it.I had read lots of other reviews from Mac owners, most saying they were glad they did it as well. if you do a google search, theres lots of information and even some videos showing you step by step.... » Read More Simple answer, yes. I did a lot of research before buying this item, and I own a 2008 Macbook Pro. I bought Carbon copy cloner, cloned my hard drive, swapped the new drive in, and downloaded and installed a free trim enabler program, it actually was pretty easy, oh and I already had a external hard drive enclosure wich made cloning my drive easy. And it has been working great, glad I did it.I had read lots of other reviews from Mac owners, most saying they were glad they did it as well. if you do a google search, theres lots of information and even some videos showing you step by step. Check out OWC other world computing , but stick with this ssd rated very well. « Show Less
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Not true, you can upgrade to Leopard for $9.95 through Apple if you bought the Tiger Macbook between Oct. 1 and Dec. 29! Go to Apple's website and submit your Macbook serial number to qualify for the $10 upgrade to Leopard!
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I'm not complaining, I already have Leopard installed on my iBook and I really like it. I want to receive the iMac with Leopard installed so I can start working from the get-go. I just assume because Amazon is out of stock now that they are waiting for Apple to ship them iMacs with Leopard installed already.
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there does not seem to be a way to pre-order the fully installed imac leopards either even on apple.com .
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Well... man... that's a good question. The box set includes a Snow Leopard DVD, an iWork DVD, and an iLife DVD (keep in mind that the regular Snow Leopard family pack, that's not a box set, does not include iLife or iWork). The Snow Leopard one is only for Intel Macs. I know the retail iWork and iLife versions work on PowerPC, and I would assume that they are *probably* using the same ones, since the installer packages that you could download (such as for the iWork trial) are for both Intel and PowerPC, and since they wouldn't have to put separate files on there it would probably be easiest for them to include disks that supported PowerPC. Then again, I can't confirm this and it is a possibility that they assumed they only needed to include Intel support. One possible option you have is to buy iWork/iLife/Snow Leopard separately. The actual disks that are included in single-license copies are the same as in the family-pack ones, meaning it will install on all your computers. So what you could do is purchase those disks separately (either with family packs or not) to approximate the price of the Mac Box Set Family Pack. Of course, the best option would be to actually call 1-800-MY-APPLE and ask them if the iWork and iLife work on PPC. If not, you could ask them about buying the non-family pack versions separately to see if it's ok. I'm sure they'll be fine with it.
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I rec'd my iMac 11/6 and it still had Tiger installed. I ordered the $10 + tax upgrade from Apple and it arrived within a few days. Installation took about 90 min. and was very easy. However, if I had it to do over I might stick with the Tiger system a little longer. The reason is Tiger being a mature OS is virtually bug free, where as the brand new leopard will have some bugs to work. Therefore, I would suggest ordering iMac with Tiger and wait a few weeks to order the grade. By then Apple should have fixes in place for a problems that may arrise.
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You can install it without need for Tiger, Leopard, etc. I think that legally, you should have Tiger or Leopard to install Snow Leopard, but I wouldn't recommend upgrading over an existing system. It's OK if you don't have iLife or iWork, as when I bought my Mac over three years ago (had Tiger) that didn't have serial number for iWork, and so I'd assume that any 'bonus' software like that you'd have to pay for anyway. Hope this helps. Don't use Time Machine--just copy all your important documents and whatever else to the other drive manually. That's what I do. I don't trust backup programs (many people don't--I've read some horror stories in the past on data loss).
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You shouldn't have to. Snow Leopard will have new boot camp drivers, so after install, boot into windows with the DVD in the drive and the update installer should start...
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If your systems match or super exceed the system requirements stated below, then both of your mac machines will more than likely run the new Leopard Operating System. I hope this post helps MAC OS X Leopard System Requirements:  Processor must be any Intel, PowerPC G5 or G4 (at 867 MHz or faster)  DVD drive (for installation of the operating system)  Built-in FireWire  At least 512 MB of RAM (additional RAM is recommended for development purposes)  A built-in display or a display connected to an Apple-supplied video card  At least 9 GB of disk space available
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Yes. My new Mac didn't even come with a disc drive. I downloaded everything from the website. Forewarned, it's a bit confusing as to what to download.
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Dear Friend,I will quote the answer from the instructions included with the product. "For Macintosh users, you can find the software and installation instructions for MAC 10.4, 10.5 is under the MAC directory on the provided CD." I hope this answers your question.
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Intuit sent out an email to previous customers that stated that the Turbo Tax versions would no longer be backwards compatible with Mac OSx 10.5.8. So I believe all future versions including 2012 need to be run on Snow Leopard. I downloaded it to my new laptop that runs 10.7x. Good luck. Sorry if that wasn't the answer you were looking for. I am not part of any company and only represent 1 (one) customer's experience.
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I had a similar bad experience with installing Mavericks on a similar iMac. While the additional memory was helpful, I don't think the newer OSs are exactly compatible with legacy models; we had overheating and random shutdown issues. We eventually rolled back to Snow Leopard and it's been much better since.
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I just ordered this June 2nd and I have the new 13.3" Macbook Pro with Retina. This thing did not work for me and now I can't get a CD I put into it ejected. That would be because it's a piece of crap, not the laptop.