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Buying Leopard

  • 04-09-2009 7:38pm
    #1
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,961 ✭✭✭✭


    Assuming that Leopard will run ok on my Powerbook G4 I need to buy a copy. Do I have to buy a new, as in unused DVD, or can I buy a used one & if I do are there any disadvantages ?.

    PS If not does anyone fancy selling one ? !


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  • #2
    bluemachaveli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭bluemachaveli


    Technically a used DVD will work fine. However you will be violating Apple's EULA in doing so. If your buying a new copy, the Mac Box set with iWork and iLife is about the best bet!


  • #3
    Idleater
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    bluemachavel wrote: »
    If your buying a new copy, the Mac Box set with iWork and iLife is about the best bet!
    Is there a plain Leopard Box Set? Or am I confusing this with the Snow Leopard Box Set.

    Of course snow leopard won't work with the g4 from my (albeit limited) reading of the specs.


  • #4
    bluemachaveli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,743 ✭✭✭bluemachaveli


    My bad, they must have replaced the Leopard set with Snow Leopard. You are right, Snow Leopard is defiantly out the window. You need an Intel processor to run it.

    PC World and other suppliers will probably still have Leopard in stock. Amazon still have it on its own here and box set here!


  • #5
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,961 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Well I was considering upgrading purely because many third party applications. However I have now found a lot of comment that Leopard slows down a G4 so I am having second thoughts.


  • #6
    Talisman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,289 ✭✭✭Talisman


    Discodog wrote: »
    PS If not does anyone fancy selling one ? !
    I have a CPU drop-in disc if you want it - still sealed. A couple of years ago I ordered two Mac mini's for a mate and myself and for some reason one came with 10.4.10 installed and the Leopard CPU drop-in disc, the other came with Leopard installed.

    I offered to take the one with 10.4 installed but my mate thought he was being the good samaritan by taking it, then the idiot bought Leopard and installed it himself. Month's later he realised that the Leopard disc was in the box, I have the drop-in disc as he was just going to dump it. :D


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