Using a restore disc for other Mac Machine...

DJAznSensation

macrumors regular

Original poster

Mar 26, 2008

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• Apr 17, 2008

• #1

I have a bet with a friend of mine who recently purchased a Black MacBook from eBay.... which currently runs on OS X Tiger (not new Leopard)

he wants me to let him use the my MacBook Pro Mac OS X Install Discs so he too can have Leopard.

I say that its not gonna work because my disc is meant for my MacBook Pro and plus Apple is too smart of a company to let it be that easy...

whose right?

 

Sun Baked

macrumors G5

May 19, 2002

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• Apr 17, 2008

• #2

The Restore disks are likely still tied to Model Identifier... or a range of them.

Look Under /About This Mac/More Info .../Hardware

Likely the older machine will not work with that set of DVDs, though any machine with Apple set up to work with those Restore DVDs will.

 

HLdan

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Aug 22, 2007

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• Apr 17, 2008

• #3

It has to be like for like. Two MBP's of the same exact model can use the same disc, though it's against the EULA.

So in other words you can't even use the install discs from the last version of the MBP with the current version of the MBP (it won't install) so there's no way you can share the same disc from a MBP to a Macbook so you (The OP) are right and your friend is wrong if he believes otherwise.

 

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BlackThunder

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Apr 17, 2008

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• Apr 17, 2008

• #4

Worth a shot... but I would stick with the retail.. me and 2 of my friends all chipped in and got a retail copy. (still illegal and inexcusable I know but we're poor)

 

squaros

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Feb 25, 2008

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• Apr 18, 2008

• #5

HLdan said:

It has to be like for like. Two MBP's of the same exact model can use the same disc, though it's against the EULA.

So in other words you can't even use the install discs from the last version of the MBP with the current version of the MBP (it won't install) so there's no way you can share the same disc from a MBP to a Macbook so you (The OP) are right and your friend is wrong if he believes otherwise.

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Is the same true for backwards compatibility? Could I use my penryn install discs to restore a merom machine?