Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

search you retard!

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread10638.html

ha ha!!! awesome im a complete cock!

ha

i thought the whole thing felt a bit familiar...too much time on the forum.

you cock-knocker!

never understood why people run windows on macs?? bizarre

laugh it up robbbbb!

^^one day we'll be in charge!

The Chinese?

wow.

Ray's cysts...

rays sis

You should be shot for polluting a beautiful Mac with that filth!
You wouldn't torture a cat would you?

ray? cats? no no no. but dogs? yes. dogs.

I have a battered old macbook, it is running OS 10.3 but I need to upgrade to 10.4 or higher before Thursday.

I am going away to Italy on Friday, my garmin cycling computer talks to my desktop computer at home but will not work with my old laptop given its ancient OS.

Has anyone got a spare multi user licence for 10.4 or higher that I can use? would offer cash - but need to get it sorted asap.

Many thanks

ps am an idiot and should have posted this on the wanted pages, feel free to flame away!

I had the install disks for Leopard, OS 10.5, that you can use. The catch is that Matt (smallbrownbike) borrowed them off me about a year ago and we've never managed to arrange a time for me to pick them back up off him. I don't know if he's still got them mind.

I;m pretty sure that OS X does not know the concept of a license - there is virtually no copy protection. I think they do it because the are really a hardware company and Windows' validation is pissing people off no end.

I have a 10.4 disk but have lent my Leopard one to someone and can't get it back, too.

You don't need a multi-user licence necessarily, just borrow a copy of Leopard or whatever and install away, apple doesn't go in for the whole windows validation security gubbins.

I can bring a copy to west drinks on thursday...

this is interesting re the lack of license - does anyone know if I could bittorent the software?

can i blag the discs off someone before thursday (slightly long story - the cd drive on my laptop is knackered so will need to rip to a firewire drive and install that way) plus by thursday I need to be packed and ready for my trip away.

A retail copy of OS X will work on any number of machines of any type.

A bundled (with a Mac) copy of OS X will work any number of times but only on that type of original Mac (Macbook, iMac, Mac Pro, etc).

The licensing is not enforced, but they have a very low pirate rate due to the user base being 80% + on the latest version and the bundled OS with a new Mac.

Torrenting the software works, there can be issues when installing to an external HD (or similar) and then duplicating to an internal drive. Why not install to your new machine using someone else's Mac... put the disks in their machine, mount your machine to theirs with a firewire cable, install?

This is the "official" way to re-install the OS if the optical drive is cream crackered.

I've PM'd Matt about my disk. If he's still got it I'm sure I can get it to you before Thursday, DJ.

so i could be as well off just buying a single user licence and updating both the desktop and the laptop?

I am more than willing to pay the money and do it legitimately, so may well go down that route - may even take the laptop into the mac store and get them to do the upgrade on there and then take the discs home to upgrade the desktop

I love the forum - the fact that I can get simple straightforward advice on so many issues.

cheers y'all

It's about £85 for the install disks for Leopard, at least it was last year. As the other contributors have said, once you have the disk then you can install it on multiple machines (although I think there is an upper limit).

so i could be as well off just buying a single user licence and updating both the desktop and the laptop?

I am more than willing to pay the money and do it legitimately, so may well go down that route - may even take the laptop into the mac store and get them to do the upgrade on there and then take the discs home to upgrade the desktop

I love the forum - the fact that I can get simple straightforward advice on so many issues.

cheers y'all

In order for this to work you will need the same processor architecture on both computers. Older Macs use PowerPC and newer ones use Intel. I'm doubtful you can get Leopard in PPC.