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geltab · Oct 26, 2006, 12:05 PM

Hi,

I am about to purchase a Macbook Pro C2D but had a pretty important question before I
go and buy it. I am the owner of a Macbook right now and recently installed 10.4.8. This
installation made illustrator completely unusable for me. It screwed up the pathfinder tool
(which is what I use for 90% of my work everyday). I went back and reinstalled the original
OS and then updated it to 10.4.7 and it worked fine.

My question is, since the Macbook Pro C2D ships with 10.4.8, is there any way that I can
use my Macbook system disks to put an older version on my new MBP C2D? In other words,
do the disks that the MBP C2D come with have drivers specific to the machine, can a MBP
C2D even run on 10.4.7? I wonder if apple and adobe ever sorted that out with 10.4.8 and
Illustrator CS2.

Thanks

ibook_steve · Oct 26, 2006, 01:13 PM

No. The version that ships with the machine is the minimum OS version that will run on that machine. It's usually a new build that is machine specific until the next general OS update.

Steve