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Originally Posted by RYCeT /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Hi guys, as you know, I've been waiting for the new macbook to come out. I prefer Macbook since it's smaller, however I need a bigger hard drive & Ram. I've been researching that the only way to transfer the contents will be by cloning it.
Apple has been offering 'Mac OS X Leopard Up-to-Date Program'. I'm just wondering, what kind of dvd's they will provide for this program. Can I use that DVD to do fresh install? I'll prefer fresh install instead of cloning.
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Your question isn't entirely clear (I don't understand your cloning comment, I think you might have misread what you were reading about that... OS X has an excellent migration tool which lets you pick exactly what you want to migrate; I can't think of any reason why you'd
need to clone an OS X drive).
I'm pretty sure you'll get a standard OS X Leopard DVD with the Leopard Up-to-Date program. The only "special" DVDs Apple ships are the DVDs that come with each system and include whatever bundled software (iLife + sometimes OmniOutliner, etc.) is bundled along.
(Also, just because you get a vanilla Leopard DVD, it doesn't mean you can't use iLife, etc. from a bundled Tiger DVD. Just insert the bundled DVD and install what you want off it. You can do that without reinstalling the whole OS.)
In general, when you upgrade an Apple OS, you get three options:
1) upgrade
2) archive and install
3) erase and install.
1 and 3 are pretty obvious. 2 is kind of neat. It's like a totally fresh install, but before it starts the install, it makes backups of your home directory, the system directory, etc., then does a fresh install. Once finished, you can use the migration tool to move a selection of your old stuff over, or you can manually move stuff one-by-one. Either way, all your old stuff is still on the machine, and you have a totally fresh install. It's the best of both worlds.