Is my mac ready to sell on?

[ericthepenguin]

Hi guys I hope someone can help me with a couple of simple queries:

I'm looking to sell my Powerbook so have reinstalled Leopard using the 10.5 DVD (not the original grey installation discs which I couldn't find) using the option which clears the hd.

I wanted to check that everything is returned to factory settings but cannot do so without reregistering (which I obviously can't do) so please can someone tell me are all my programmes, documents and settings etc gone? Will the recipient be able to set a new admin password etc and literally have a BRAND NEW mac?

Also the Leopard disc is a 5-user one I bought with flatmates and my Powerbook was the 4th computer registered- have I now exhausted its use or am I still on 4 installs?

Any advice on these would be much appreciated

Cheers

 

[firstapple]

Eh... You are kind of pushing the limit by selling a computer when you purchased the 5 user OS X pack.

I would say you only have one more install left if you want to try and be a little honest, even though what you are doing by selling a computer with OS X installed from a family pack is already against Apple's EULA. Lucky for you Apple isn't much like Microsoft (yet) where they will search and destroy every unlicensed OS.

 

[Blue Velvet]

Without using the original install disks, it won't be returned to factory settings, as the iLife apps won't be there.

When I sold my MacBook recently, which I wasn't really using, I erased the hard-drive three times by booting from the install disk and zeroing all the data using Disk Utility as I had some credit card info on there.

Then, did a clean install from the install disks. Afterwards, I checked it was booting and shut it down when the welcome splash started up, the one with the music. The buyer received it as if it was a new Mac with all apps intact.

 

[ericthepenguin]

Thanks for your responses- hadn't considered rights issues at all tbh and iLife software would be good to include.

Better search for those original discs then proceed from there!

 

[msheldrick]

if you can't find them, i'm fairly certain that you can ring Apple and they'll ship you out a copy of them (for a fee)