Re: [MACTCL] [OT] Snow Leopard and Old Intel Macs

[Jeff H. <je...@ac...>]

Not all install DVDs work on all systems.  In our experience (we've had 
just about every Mac variant at AS), if you have a DVD that came with 
another system, it will only work on a narrow band of similar systems. 
For example, we've had iMac DVDs work on other iMacs, but not MBPs, and 
vice versa.  When you buy a retail OS X DVD (or have dev access), you 
get a version that will work across systems.

Jeff

On 19/05/2010 10:18 AM, Barry Skidmore wrote:
> Strange then, must be some diff that allows yours to install where
> mine will not.  10.6 install DVD refuses to even start the install
> process on mine.
>
> I'm in Houston and that mac is in storage in Seattle but I am having
> it shipped down in August, will try to figure it out then.
>
> On May 19, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Tim Jones<tj...@to...>  wrote:
>
>> On May 19, 2010, at 8:21 AM, Barry Skidmore wrote:
>>
>>> Mine is in storage but sounds like the sane machine, does yours use
>>> the G4 case as well?
>>
>> Yes it has the white plastic case.  These were pre-release units
>> provided to developers who had "rented" the Developer Transition
>> System (DTS) for the start of the shift to Intel.  Which were the
>> systems we were all sworn to secrecy over and we had to return once
>> real systems were shipping.  To ease the "pain" of giving back the
>> system, Apple swapped them with the "almost ready for prime-time"
>> iMac.