When will these ship with Lion OS and new keyboard? Does the latest Imac allow blue ray DVDs to run?
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Good point. It's October and the Amazon iMacs still ship with Snow Leopard? Every other reseller I've checked is offering models with Lion pre-installed. You guys just lost a sale.
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It appears as though they may have pushed out this date. The download website currently reads "Fall, 2008" for a Mac Friendly version... Anyone have any input?
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they work fine on macbooks and the longevity seems to hold up. However TDK discs at Costco are cheaper!
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I've been running Lion for a few days now. I don't find it worth even the $30 Apple is charging for it. It seems a determined attempt on behalf of Mr. Jobs to make everything, including Macs, look and function as an iPad. Enough already. If I want an iPad, I'll use an iPad. I'm trying to run a decent laptop here, and Lion's trying to dumb things down to a tablet level. My advice is to stick with Snow Leopard.
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Home premium - no disc come w this & I wish I would have waited to get a Mac. It's ok but I'm not thrilled with it. I really wish the keyboard lit up under it on the letters & numbers. That would have been a great added feature.
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It really seems to depend on where your iMac is shipped from. I ordered mine on January 29, 2007 and it arrived with Tiger installed. No Leopard disc was included. I contacted Amazon and they referred me to Apple. In the end, Amazon refunded me the money to purchase Leopard and iLife '08.My order shipped from Cincinnati, OH.
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These are from 2005. No, they will NOT run Mavericks. I think "Panther" OSX 10.5 is the most recent they will run.
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Mine was just delivered. I haven't tried it with an actual disc yet but my Mac was able to quickly identify the device with no software needed.
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I have Mavericks OS 10.9.4 and it works fine. I don't know how far back it goes. The box it came in was destroyed in our earthquake so I don't have the Mac specs handy, but I would guess it might go back as far as Snow Leopard, maybe earlier, but that is just a guess. Is it not supplied with the sales specs for the product? Sorry, I don't have more info handy at this time. I do have to say that I have moved on to Rosetta Stone. They have a terrific sale (50% and I bought the full program Levels I-V for about $250. Don't know if it's still on, but I received it just before the quake. Now that Our house is about restored, I'm getting ready to load it up.
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This is just the divice; it does not come with the software; that has to be downloaded for your specific operating system. There is more than one choice for the software, (more that one brand name). It is tricky to work correctly on a MAC for Blu-ray, but DVDs work much better. Almost all software available will play DVD an CD on this drive.Apple does not have a business interest supporting external drives like blu-ray, since most of its software, applications, entertainment, are available through iTunes. very respectfully, Curtthom@cox.net, Frankfurt, Germany
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You should check with apple, i also got tiger installed, but the leopard os was on the small black box, after their announcement they should be shipping with it and you shouldnt have to pay not even 10 dollars for that
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Define latest? For Mac, it comes w/ no software. Blu ray software can be bought for $60 on app store. I rip my movies to play on roku or apple tv, so I don't use the player. For my windows, it comes w/ an OEM version that is 2 versions old....I didn't install it as I already had something newer. The drive works great w/ DVDFab. I'm very pleased with this drive and recommend.
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my MBP arrived today, ordered 2 days ago - iLife 08, Leopard - also came with Leopard disks.
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bought mine Saturday, came with old leopard (but i bought snow leopard)best macbook pro ever. snow leopard really makes it come alive (with speed)my adobe and pro apps load up with the greatest of ease (it's scary how fast they run now), heck, even firefox doesn't slow down the system anymore! (though it does take it's time)and now you can add more than 10 items to you dock (when dragging a folder down), soo awesome!
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You Should Wait Until October. Thats When Everything Gets Released but man these new imacs are very nice
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Any news on Mac compatability as I'm looking at it as well and have 2 graduations over the next 3 weeks!
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I have had no problems with it running OS 10.9, just plug and play. You do need a program that will play Bluray movies (if you want to do this), as Apple's programs don't support them.