Right now, Apple is penny-pinching, but hey, if that means they lay off a measly 50 instead of 50000+ like other companies during the time where people are expecting too much for too little (recession if you want to call it that) because of all the offset of cost maneuvers companies use to sell hardware/software, I will accept that and be glad when Apple is doing OK after this economic bump is done with. But if they just started letting people download it for free, they would not be able to offset it with hardware, because no hardware is being sold for the downloads. The cost of the software is offset by you spending the extra money to get a machine with the SuperDrive (notice how it boosts the price of the machine a good 500-600$ as a BTO option?). It is bundled with the SuperDrive Macs because: you need software to do authoring, and so there has to be some 'lite' version of the authoring software Apple produces (Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro). Okay, lemme answer for mindbend since I also stated this. (Wow, can't believe I defended Apple on this one.) Apple can't afford that, so they pay the fees, and to keep their profit margin, pass the 'savings' on to us. Dell just got sued for bundling DVD playback without paying the proper fees by the 30+ patent owners of the MPEG-2 standard. Apple isn't in the market to skirt copyright law and risk losing a good chunk of the cash they built up. No offense, but you are over-reacting a little bit here. Apple cannot afford to give free updates when they are paying out for every copy they move of iDVD. You cannot expect them to ship a machine by snagging beta software, burning it onto a CD and saying 'We think this will do', can you? Of course, Apple does seem to be nickel-and-diming to death on this stuff, but hey. This isn't all that unusual, just bad timing. Usually there is a couple days of lag time where it is packed, but not shipped, and a couple days lag time as Apple gets the new set of CDs that includes the update out to their pressing company. They install all the software on the machine, pack it up, and ship it. It really depends on how quickly stock moves. Usually those sent out starting a week or two after the announcement carry it. If you are using Mac OS X, use the Repair Privileges Utility.Considering Apple announced it AFTER it shipped your particular machine, it won't have it. Copy the software from the disk image volume to the hard disk.Ĩ. Open the disk image volume and locate the software you want to reinstall.ħ. This disk image volume contains all the software that your computer did when it was first purchased.Ħ. The disk image appears as a hard disk on the desktop. dmg file from the folder you created to the Disk Copy window. Open the Disk Copy application program.ĥ. There may be up to five images depending on the restore set.Ĥ. Insert the Software Restore discs one by one and copy the disk image (.dmg) files in the Configurations folder from each disc to the folder you created on the hard disk. Ensure there is approximately 2 GB of free hard disk space on your computer.ģ. If you need an item that is only available from the Restore CD set, you may install it without erasing the hard disk by following these steps:ġ.
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