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Posted by Gordon Sande on 05/06/06 23:33

On 2006-05-06 17:12:57 -0300, Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> said:

> In article <0001HW.C08231C3005A8761F0488530@news.wildblue.net>,
> Donald McDaniel <orthocross@invalid.net> wrote:
>
>> But if I have not, I recognize the possibility that I may be in error
>> (if it is an error). I am not convinced as of now that it is an error.
>> I really don't trust Mac fanatics very much. I see no reason they
>> would have to ever speak the truth, especially to me.
>
> It appears that your definition of a Mac fanatic is anyone who knows
> what he's talking about regarding the Mac, and who counters the
> falsehoods spread about the Mac by Windows fanatics.
>
>> My brother tells me that a Retail version of OS X 10.4 will only
>> install if a previous version of OS X is already on the HD (or I have
>> simply misunderstood what he said, which is possible).
>>
>> Of course, he could be in error himself, or I could be misunderstanding him.
>
> Either he is in error or you misunderstood him--if he said anything
> like that in the first place, assuming that he exists.
>
>> But just so you will understand where I am coming from,
>
> OEM means "Original Equipment Manufacturer"; therefore, in the case of
> computer software, it is the software that ships with the computer.
>
> An OEM version of the Mac OS is the version that ships with a Macintosh.
>
> A full retail version of the Mac OS is the version that you buy in a
> box, and that does not ship with a computer.
>
> An OEM version usually will install only on the model machine it ships
> with (but if more than one model of the Mac is released at the same
> time, quite often the OEM version will install on all of those
> particular models). Because it ships with the computer, there is no
> need to sell it separately.
>
> A full retail version of the Mac OS will install on any Macintosh that
> supports that version of the OS. And because it will install on any
> Macintosh that supports that OS, there is no need to sell
> machine-specific versions.
>
> It does not matter what OS is already installed on the computer, or
> whether there is any OS installed on it.
>
> Any version of the Mac OS can be installed in any of the following ways:
> 1. Upgrade an existing, earlier version, of Mac OS.
> 2. A "clean" install, archiving previous installation (with the option
> of copying preference files and third-party application files to the
> newly installed OS, from the old OS).
> 3. Erase the disk and installing fresh, losing everything that had
> been on the disk.
> 4. Installing on an existing disk that does not have Mac OS X on it
> (e.g., a data disk, or an OS 9 or earlier disk), without destroying any
> data.

The retail version of MaxOsX seems to install nicely into a newly formatted
partition. It will also do an upgrade.

The "OEM" versions check for the specific model because thye typically have
additional software bundled and on the install disks. The iLife packages or
MacOs/9 ("Classic") of some such bundle.

There are some vendors who supply OEM Windows?XP on a retila basis because
they include a piece of hardware (usually a cable woth $0.25 or such) and
those versioninsist on doing a clean install. The fine print of the vendors
product descriptions expalin this reatriction if you know how to understnad it.

 

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