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i recently bought a macbook (my first mac) from a reseller in the uk and was told it had leopard pre installed, but i when i turned it on i found out it had tiger on it, and there were no discs in the box with leopard.
when i rang the retailer, i was told i could download leopard off the apple website for a small fee. i was just wondering if this is true and if so where do i get it from?
thanks.
 
macmacmacmacmac said:
i recently bought a macbook (my first mac) from a reseller in the uk and was told it had leopard pre installed, but i when i turned it on i found out it had tiger on it, and there were no discs in the box with leopard.
when i rang the retailer, i was told i could download leopard off the apple website for a small fee. i was just wondering if this is true and if so where do i get it from?
thanks.
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If you JUST bought that machine, I would bring it back... it's the previous model (unless you knowingly bought that) that machine lacks Santa Rosa and the X3100.
 
macmacmacmacmac said:
so youre saying leopard will be slow and slow down my computer in general?
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I don't recall a mention of that.

The new Santa Rosa MacBook is a good improvement over the old one in terms of overall performance. Make sure the new one has a 2.0/2.2 GHz processor and a 800 MHz Front Side Bus.
 
im not as 'in the know' as most people on here, so could someone explain to me please:
-will leopard work on my 2.0ghz pre-santa rosa macbook?
-if so, will the performance of my macbook change significantly?
-and also if so, are there any features that wouldnt work or would be really slow?

thanks
 
macmacmacmacmac said:
im not as 'in the know' as most people on here, so could someone explain to me please:
-will leopard work on my 2.0ghz pre-santa rosa macbook?
-if so, will the performance of my macbook change significantly?
-and also if so, are there any features that wouldnt work or would be really slow?

thanks
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1. Oh yes.
2. It should stay approximately the same.
3. No.
 
macmacmacmacmac said:
im not as 'in the know' as most people on here, so could someone explain to me please:
-will leopard work on my 2.0ghz pre-santa rosa macbook?
-if so, will the performance of my macbook change significantly?
-and also if so, are there any features that wouldnt work or would be really slow?

thanks
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1. Yes, Leopard will be fine on a pre-Santa Rosa Macbook.
2. Performance from Tiger to Leopard or between the hardware?
3. You'll be able to install more RAM and have a better video card on the new Macbook
 
splashtech said:
As far as I know, pre santra rosa are also 64 bit, as long as we are talking about the Core 2 duo versions, not the core duo. Mine is a pre-santa rosa, and its a 64 bit machine.

Although your statement about the RAM is very true. I have 2GB in mine 🙂
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You are correct

Core Duo = 32bit
Core 2 Duo (any flavor) = 64bit

The RAM thing has less to do with the processor than it does with the chipset.
 
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