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29-12-2007, 12:10 PM
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Group: Regulars
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Why won't my iMac's install disks work on my powerbook?
I tried loading my imac leopard disk on my powerbook but no go it gets to the select language page then it says that it cannot load on this machine- I tried looking for a thred of this but I could not find one. any ideas
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29-12-2007, 12:12 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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What are the stats of your machine?
And please rename your thread title 
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29-12-2007, 12:49 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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Ahh the new title explains it. The DVD's that come with Mac's are compatible only with the Mac they were sold with. If you want Leopard for your PowerBook you'll need to go and buy it 
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29-12-2007, 01:19 PM
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It's a cruel, cruel summer
Group: Regulars
Location: NSW
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Yes that's right. You buy an iMac, it comes preloaded with Leopard and you get restore discs for that machine.
A retail copy of Leopard will be needed if you want to install it on your PowerBook.
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29-12-2007, 01:28 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Norwood, Adelaide.
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Yep, technically the discs that come with your computer are "restoration discs". Could be a form of piracy protection, you'll need to buy OSX off the shelf to install it on your PowerBook.
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29-12-2007, 06:01 PM
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Group: Regulars
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29-12-2007, 06:14 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Melbourne
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The iMac disks won't work on a PowerBook because they are iMac disks
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29-12-2007, 06:15 PM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Hobart, TAS
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...hmm, Apple is misleading people.
On the new Leopard discs that come with your machine, they say "For Mac Computers". This, of course, leads me to assume that the disc can be used with any computer, when in fact it can only be used with the computer that it came with.
They used to say "PowerBook", or had machine-specific discs, ie a disc that said PowerBook was not going to work in an iBook.
Good thing the Leopard Drop-Ins are generic, hey  |
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29-12-2007, 06:22 PM
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It's a cruel, cruel summer
Group: Regulars
Location: NSW
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Except Drop-Ins are annoying to install? Doesn't it require Tiger to be installed first, then Leopard?
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30-12-2007, 06:18 AM
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Not so serious ;)
Group: Administrators
Location: Fukuoka, Japan (originally Canberra)
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bennyling, don't you mean the Leopard upgrade disks? The standard grey disks that come with Macs have the model name on them.
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30-12-2007, 08:42 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: The Deep South, Sydney.
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The iMac disks won't work on a PowerBook because they are iMac disks
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There are workarounds for model specific install discs that involve a firewire cable, but this won't work in this instance, because the Imac is Intel and the Powerbook is PPC. |
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30-12-2007, 10:34 AM
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It's a cruel, cruel summer
Group: Regulars
Location: NSW
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I thought Leopard was Universal.
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03-01-2008, 11:17 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Hobart, TAS
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Leopard is universal.
Currawong, what I'm saying is that the Restore Discs that come with your Mac (the grey ones) seem to be generic, ie. they work on all Macs, not only the Mac that they came with.
As far as I'm aware, the Leopard Drop-Ins are full versions of Leopard, and they DO NOT require you to have a pre-installed version of Tiger.
Confusing, I know.
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03-01-2008, 11:30 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Although the discs are Universal, they are model specific and won't run on another model - i.e. you cannot upgrade your PowerBook running Tiger, to Leopard, by inserting your brothers discs he received with his 2-week old MacBook |
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03-01-2008, 11:35 AM
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Group: Regulars
Location: Hobart, TAS
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Really?
So even though they say "For Mac Computers" they actually mean "For the Mac that this Disc came with?"
Ha, Cool.
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