Do I have Reinstall Snow Leopard Before Selling My Early 2011 13" MBP?

gregpod9 · Feb 17, 2013, 01:22 AM

I will be selling my early 2011 13" MBP that came Snow Leopard. I upgraded to Mountain Lion when it came out and installed it in my MBP. My questions is:
Do I have remove Mountain Lion and install Snow Leopard when I sell my MBP?

Primejimbo · Feb 17, 2013, 12:31 PM

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?

iDemiurge · Feb 17, 2013, 12:48 PM

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...-install-disk/

This way the ML copy won't be tied to your Apple account.

Else just do a clean install of SL.

gregpod9 · Feb 17, 2013, 01:21 PM

To be on the safe side, I'll be reinstalling SL.

Giuly · Feb 18, 2013, 06:45 PM

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.

phoenixsan · Feb 18, 2013, 08:28 PM

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.

Feb 17, 2013, 01:22 AM	#1
gregpod9 macrumors member Join Date: Apr 2007	Do I have Reinstall Snow Leopard Before Selling My Early 2011 13" MBP? I will be selling my early 2011 13" MBP that came Snow Leopard. I upgraded to Mountain Lion when it came out and installed it in my MBP. My questions is: Do I have remove Mountain Lion and install Snow Leopard when I sell my MBP?
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Feb 17, 2013, 12:48 PM	#3
iDemiurge macrumors regular Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: London, England	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...-install-disk/ This way the ML copy won't be tied to your Apple account. Else just do a clean install of SL. __________________ 2011 11" Air
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Feb 18, 2013, 08:28 PM	#6
phoenixsan macrumors 6502a Join Date: Oct 2012	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. __________________ Mac Pro 2010 3.06 Westmere version, 12 Core 64 GB RAM, 4 TB , iPhone 5 (black)
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Feb 17, 2013, 12:31 PM	#2
Primejimbo macrumors 68020 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Chicago area	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?
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Feb 17, 2013, 01:21 PM	#4
gregpod9 Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Apr 2007	To be on the safe side, I'll be reinstalling SL.
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Feb 18, 2013, 06:45 PM	#5
Giuly macrumors 68020 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: That depends whether you ask for timezone, state of mind or GPS coordinates.	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.
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