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

[gregpod9]

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]

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]

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.

 

[gregpod9]

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

 

[Giuly]

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]

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.