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Old 24th August 2009   #20
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Originally Posted by mavano View Post
How does that work? I'm changing to mac and plan to buy a macbook pro at NYC when I'm going there in October. Will I be "stuck" with Leoard snow? If it doesn't work with PT I'd like the option to move back to Leopard for a while...

Can't I just make a fresh leopard install?
Ok, I'll try to explain.
Every Mac comes with a pre-installed OS.
You can always update your OS to a newer version (except your hardware is not supported anymore), but you NEVER can install an older OS X version on that machine.

f.e.: actual Macs ship(ped?) with "Leopard 10.5.x" ---> so you can't install "Tiger 10.4.x"

After the release of Snow Leopard all Macs ship with the new OS pre-installed.

I remember when I bought my Macbook it came with 10.5 pre-installed, just a few weeks after the release. It took many weeks and updates till everything ran as smooth as it does now. - I personally don't want to risk waiting again -
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