Just bought used Mac Pro, no discs, what's the cheapest way to reinstall?

[Crugga]

Sorry I'm sure this has been asked a million times.
Picked up a used first gen mac pro and it's come with tiger but he had lost the disk. I want to either install leopard or better still snow leopard or worst case just give it a fresh install.
I'm just confused as to what I need to buy?, I've seen leopard for around £90 and snow leopard for £30 and well over £100 as a package of which I only want the os.
Can anyone confirm which would and would not work on my machine? Will the £30 snow leopard work?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

You can get the Snow Leopard Upgrade DVD for 25 GBP, it is a Retail version of Mac OS X and will work on all Intel Macs, even ones without Mac OS X installed. It lacks iLife though, that's what the Mac Box Set is for, including iLife and iWork.

 

[Crugga]

Thanks that's really helped.

 

[old-wiz]

I'm not sure if all of the older MacPros are even Intel?
If it's Intel, go for Snow Leopard.

 

[otherorange]

I'm not sure if all of the older MacPros are even Intel?
If it's Intel, go for Snow Leopard.

If it is a MacPro it uses an Intel processor by definition.

 

[camomac]

yeah what he said ^^^^^

the G5 was the last of power PC line, and the mac pro/MBP
was the introduction to intel. so any mac pro/MBP is able
to run leopard/snow leopard. and like it was said the "upgrade"
to snow leopard is a complete OS and will install without the
need to install leopard first.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

I'm not sure if all of the older MacPros are even Intel?
If it's Intel, go for Snow Leopard.

PowerMac G5 --> PPC CPU
Mac Pro --> X86 CPU

PowerBook G4 --> PPC CPU
MacBook Pro --> X86 CPU

Anyway, when Apple switched to Intel they wanted to have the word "Mac" in every computer they produce, thus the MacPro and MBP.

www.everymac.com is a good resource to see, what Mac has what and what not.