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playsguitars · Mar 11, 2008, 11:03 PM

hi, all. Im picking up a brand new macbook pro with the 45nm chips in it tomorrow

but i have a burning question...

I work in a studio and absolutely must have pro tools 7.4.1 installed on this thing, but i see it's only compatible with the HD systems (8cores).
My question is, can i theoretically un-install the pre-installed Leopard OS, and put Tiger in there? When it's compatible with LE systems, i would upgrade back to Leopard, obviously.

Is this feasable? any information would help me out so much! you all seem to know your stuff so i thought i'd ask you guys first. Thanks a ton!

playsguitars · Mar 11, 2008, 11:15 PM

forgot to mention it will be running 4g of ram as well.

hedmisten · Mar 11, 2008, 11:28 PM

i know that it might not be compatible, but I would at least do an install if possible to determine the effects of the software on Leopard before installing Tiger. It would seem like a step back for me. Almost like Vista users going back to XP...lol.

playsguitars · Mar 12, 2008, 12:12 AM

yea, i know it doesn't make a lot of sense, but in the industry, one day without pro tools = not getting paid. i just can't afford to make clients wait on things until digidesign gets their stuff straightened out. the macbook was nice until i dropped it, so i figured why not upgrade to a pro? but apple claims that the older os's won't work with the architecture of the new 'books, but i don't take much they say for truth these days. btw, the extended warranty they offer don't cover "cosmetic accidents", so i've found it to really not be worth the money. you get a one year warranty from apple anyways.

bishopazrael · Mar 12, 2008, 12:47 AM

plays,
Yeah, I'm a tech and I've worked w/ musicians. Let me say this. I think you need to do 2 things. First, get a back up drive, external if possible. Just because... look at my sig and you'll get it. Second, partition your primary drive. If it's a 250gb drive or so, give yourself about a 50gb partition for Tiger and then just remember to choose which to boot to. If you need specifics about it I can tell you where to go.

But the short answer is yes, you can install a retail copy of Tiger if you want to.

ibook_steve · Mar 12, 2008, 01:17 AM

Originally Posted by bishopazrael

But the short answer is yes, you can install a retail copy of Tiger if you want to.

Actually no. You can't run prior versions of the OS on new hardware. There have been a number of recent discussions about this. Check out the Mac OS X forum. Suffice it to say, no, you can't run Tiger on the new hardware because new hardware includes new builds of the OS that include support for specific hardware features of the new machine. You can't even install retail Leopard on the new hardware. You have to use the disk that comes with the machine.

Steve

ChrisF · Mar 12, 2008, 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by playsguitars

yea, i know it doesn't make a lot of sense, but in the industry, one day without pro tools = not getting paid.

Protools has a specific hardware/software compatibility list. Even if it were possible to install 10.4 on a newer Macbook Pro, you'd be outside of known, tested configurations and it would be inadvisable at best to do this. If you must have a MacBook Pro which will run 10.4 right now, you need the previous model.

amazing · Mar 12, 2008, 12:32 PM

And if you need the previous model, then you should be checking out the refurb deals that Apple has in the Special Deals section of the Store. There are some great prices currently, main decision is whether you want glossy vs matte.