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My old G4 Mac that was running an educational version of the CS3 suite died (power supply failure) and I now have a much newer machine. Can I install the CS3 suite on this new Mac (without going through migration assistant)? I will only be using CS3 on the new machine. Will I be able to make the switch and have my educational license still work? Thanks!

While Bob's answer is the easiest, the other answer is to take the hard drive out of the old machine, but it in an enclosure connect it to the new machine with a usb drive. Install a new copy of the OS (try upgrade first if that doesn't work you can try an archive and install) onto the extrenal hard_drive, the try booting from the old hard drive on the new machine. Then deactivate. Of course you could try to migrate the application to the new machine, but that can introduce what is known as a World of Hurt©.
But the easiest way to do it is Bob's method. You can use the hard drive/enclosue method if you need to get the data off the hard drive in case you belong to the majority that do not back up their data.

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