New Mac Questions:

[wayland1985]

My girlfriend just bought her first mac (With a lot of persuasion from me). I noticed iChat shows her as away, even though she's "Available". I know my early 2008 MBP's iChat has been having some sort of issue not registering myself as away. Is this a problem on her end, or mine? And what could be the issue?


Next question: If I were to reformat my Mac... Should I use the software disks that came with my MBP, or can I just use Leopard, which I bought years ago with my Powerbook??? I know some drivers aren't on the Leopard disk for my MBP, but wouldn't they update on a software update?


And Finally: She got an iPod touch, with software 2.2 installed. Shouldn't 3.0 be available for free????

 

[r.j.s]

My girlfriend just bought her first mac (With a lot of persuasion from me). I noticed iChat shows her as away, even though she's "Available". I know my early 2008 MBP's iChat has been having some sort of issue not registering myself as away. Is this a problem on her end, or mine? And what could be the issue?

Can't help you there.

Next question: If I were to reformat my Mac... Should I use the software disks that came with my MBP, or can I just use Leopard, which I bought years ago with my Powerbook??? I know some drivers aren't on the Leopard disk for my MBP, but wouldn't they update on a software update?

Use the ones that came with it, it probably will not run the original retail disc.

And Finally: She got an iPod touch, with software 2.2 installed. Shouldn't 3.0 be available for free????

No, for the iPod Touch, the update is $10.

 

[wayland1985]

Use the ones that came with it, it probably will not run the original retail disc.

I purchased the Leopard separately. It does run on my new MBP, but maybe there's something wrong in the ichat coding that causes the issues?


I guess I'll reformat tonight with the original disks that came with my MBP.


Thanks for the reallllly quick reply!

 

[r.j.s]

By not run, I meant the version of Leopard on the disc is probably too old for the new MBP.