Panther license
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- brundlefly
I just bought the upgrade to panther, and I have two macs, a desktop and a laptop.
I want to install it on both, but I am wondering what are the lisencing issues to do so....I bought two versions of jaguar for each I dont want to spent $300 just to upgrade both, I already spent $139 on panther once.
- Mimio0
Should have bought the family pack $200 for 5 licenses.
- brundlefly0
they didnt have it anwhere I went, or I would have
- elwolverton0
Panthy ain't gonna sqeual if there are multiple computers using that copy you bought.
- ribit0
and it's not really an upgrade licence... You now have quite a few full licences to run Jaguar and Panther... for what it's worth (probably not much).
Each installation of OSX doesnt know/care where you installed it from.
- brundlefly0
that's what I like to hear.
same user anyways
- tc_fisher0
ya know, i thought the same thing...
BUT -- they do have individual serial numbers, that i would imagine gets sent back to a sn database when you register or hook up to the internet...
here's where to see the number
go under the blue apple, to 'about this mac'
when the about window appears, click on the version 10.x text. that should switch it to the build number. click the build number and there is your serial number.
the sn has been around for at least jaguar. never thought to look before jaguar.
so yeah, apple has serial numbers. apple probably knows what you are doing with your two boxes and one liscence.
the real question isn't if they keep track, it is if apple cares...
- instantok0
in my experience they dont care...it should work
- bydefault0
ican't imagine apple will knock yr door for $100.. so it'd work
- Mimio0
Don't they prevent you from updating/patch the software via software update?
- unknown0
tc_fisher, that's the serial number of your machine (if you didn't know, but you said you didn't check before jaguar so i am assuming you thought it was the OS serial number) (: