Just bought MacBook Pro on 10/30: Shouldn't Leopard have been preinstalled?
I bought a MacBook Pro this past Tues (Oct. 30)at my local Apple store and was just setting it up (it's my first Mac). There's a Leopard disc in the box, but Tiger is pre-installed (I thought Leopard would be pre-installed). I held off buying in order to get Leopard and now I don't feel like fooling around with installing an upgrade. Any advice for a Mac newbie before I call Apple? Or should I just take it back to the store on Monday? Thank you!!
It's one half dozen or the other, really. They'll both generate the same result. If you go through the entire Tiger setup then you might as well go with the archive/install or upgrade option. On the other hand, if you go with a clean format & install then it seems overkill to go through the Tiger install as you'll immediately wipe out the settings.
From a historical perspective, moving from Panther to Tiger it was a 3-4 week period where computers still shipped after the new OS launch with the prior OS tied to the machine. But in the end, you're still getting Leopard!
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