Do I install leopard on all my macs?

Got a macbook and a intel imac. Both systems use airport extreme for wireless internet and printing. I need to upgrade to leopard to use iLife09. Is it important that I upgrade BOTH computers? Need to know if I buy the family pack or not. Thanks.

Hi
If you want to use iLife 09 on both models and it won't run on anything other than Leopard then it's important for that reason. If you don't want to use iLife 09 on one or the other it's not important.
Tony

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