Set up Mac OS X SL for another Macbook?

[dborja]

Our son is on duty in S Korea and his hard drive failed. Will it work if I set up a new HD with my family-pack SL here in the US and send it over to him?

I have an MB Air and he has a late '07 Macbook. I think it will work but I want to double check.

TIA,
Dale

 

[r.j.s]

Yes, it will work.

 

[mulo]

yah it'll work. the initial boot might be slow because it has to figure out what new drivers to use. but ye, SL comes with drivers for all the hardware it can run on.

 

[dborja]

Thank you both!

It's easier to ship drives than Macbooks. He sent me his dead drive and I was able to recover his data. Now I'm setting up a new drive and I'll just migrate his data back in...

 

[satcomer]

Well MacSales ships directly to APO addresses. I bet he would love an SSD drive for his Mac Book. It would feel like a new laptop with an SSD.

 

[r.j.s]

Well MacSales ships directly to APO addresses.

So does B&H ... that's where I got mine from.

 

[dborja]

Well MacSales ships directly to APO addresses. I bet he would love an SSD drive for his Mac Book. It would feel like a new laptop with an SSD.

So does B&H ... that's where I got mine from.

Thanks for the tips. I had to recover the data from the bad disk which he sent me, though, and then set it up. I'm the nerd in the family...

He needs a lot of space so an SSD with the right capacity for him is cost-prohibitive for now.