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Do I have Reinstall Snow Leopard Before Selling My Early 2011 13" MBP?
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I always wondered this because Mountain Lion is tired to your iTunes account and if the person buying it wanted to do a fresh install, how would they do this?
If you want to be really nice to the buyer you can make a bootable USB stick for him:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/how-to-create-a-bootable-backup-mountain-lion-install-disk/
This way the ML copy won't be tied to your Apple account.
Else just do a clean install of SL.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/how-to-create-a-bootable-backup-mountain-lion-install-disk/
This way the ML copy won't be tied to your Apple account.
Else just do a clean install of SL.
As he/she'll have the Snow Leopard DVD anyways, I'd send it to the seller with Mountain Lion to save him/her the money for the upgrade. You can do a clean installation from the recovery partition.
I would....
make an agreement with the buyer. If the buyer wants ML, do a fresh install of ML. And being nice, as other poster had said, have a USB stick for her/him. If not, install the original OS what ships with the machine and hand over the installation media. I tought that was the common practice, a time ago. It is up to you to install the original OS only or update it.
make an agreement with the buyer. If the buyer wants ML, do a fresh install of ML. And being nice, as other poster had said, have a USB stick for her/him. If not, install the original OS what ships with the machine and hand over the installation media. I tought that was the common practice, a time ago. It is up to you to install the original OS only or update it.