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January 30, 2008
MacBook Air Leopard Disk Only Compatible with MacBook Air Hardware
You're ready for your MacBook Air.
And the thought of tackling the UPS guy in a Hobbes-greets-Calvin style as he brings the next package to your door has crossed your mind.
Just don't expect to get a universal Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") disc that can be used to boot other hardware with it.
The guys at The Unofficial Apple Weblog have found an Apple knowledge base article describing how the MacBook Air's Leopard disk will only work to boot with a MacBook Air laptop. The Installer checks to see if it is running on an Air, and if it isn't refuses to install Leopard.
The move makes sense, even if it removes the joy of getting a useful, widely applicable new boot disk along with your new laptop. Hardware-specific features such as multi-touch gestures and Remote Disc call for a custom version of Mac OS X and Apple warns users to keep this in mind before trying to boot a non-MacBook-Air computer from the disc.
If you've gotten your hands on a MacBook Air and can add anything to this, let us know over in the comments or forums.
Posted by chrisbarylick at January 30, 2008 8:30 AM
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Comments
This isn't exactly new. Apple has often done this when releasing computers with different artchitectures that required different system specifics to run. It was common in the PowerPC days.
Posted by: rahrens at January 30, 2008 8:55 AM
Exactly...I can't boot my iMac off of my MacBook Pro disk. Apple started doing this at least years back.
Posted by: Suden at January 30, 2008 9:28 AM
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