I'm selling my wife's dual G5 on eBay. Should I leave it at Factory fresh 10.3 or install 10.5, which I have a purchased Family Pack CD for, but can't ship with the G5?
For the PowerMac G5, I've reformatted (and secure deleted) the hard drive and reinstalled from the factory CDs. It's at OS X 10.3.4 with iLife 04(?).
I bought OS X 10.5 Family Pack for our Macs last year and plan to buy Snow Leopard at release.
I don't know if I should install 10.5 on the G5 for sale. In eBay, all Macs, even old G5 machines, have 10.5 installed. So I don't want to take a hit on sale price because I'm selling with only 10.3. But I can't provide install media if I sell with 10.5 installed, since I have a Family Pack CD, not a CD specific for the G5.
I considered installing 10.5 and promising to ship the Family Pack media in Sept when I've upgraded to 10.6. But, ignoring eBay and sellers' promises, if I buy 10.6 upgrade and later need to reinstall my system, will I be stuck if I no longer have a 10.5 disc to start from?
I'm 98% legit on my software use. (My wife is 102% legit, so on the whole, we're completely legit). I don't want to do "wrong" things to sell this G5. But I want to sell it and make some bucks and want to be pragmatic.
Past that: do I include iLife 08 and iWork 08? Or sell those separately? I'm not sure which maximizes profit.
Thoughts or suggestions?
(And if you'd like nice dual 1.8 GHz G5 tower, PM me. It's not on eBay just yet and I have a reasonable "buy now" price in mind. For an HTFer I can include legit iLife 08 and iWork 08.)
For the PowerMac G5, I've reformatted (and secure deleted) the hard drive and reinstalled from the factory CDs. It's at OS X 10.3.4 with iLife 04(?).
I bought OS X 10.5 Family Pack for our Macs last year and plan to buy Snow Leopard at release.
I don't know if I should install 10.5 on the G5 for sale. In eBay, all Macs, even old G5 machines, have 10.5 installed. So I don't want to take a hit on sale price because I'm selling with only 10.3. But I can't provide install media if I sell with 10.5 installed, since I have a Family Pack CD, not a CD specific for the G5.
I considered installing 10.5 and promising to ship the Family Pack media in Sept when I've upgraded to 10.6. But, ignoring eBay and sellers' promises, if I buy 10.6 upgrade and later need to reinstall my system, will I be stuck if I no longer have a 10.5 disc to start from?
I'm 98% legit on my software use. (My wife is 102% legit, so on the whole, we're completely legit). I don't want to do "wrong" things to sell this G5. But I want to sell it and make some bucks and want to be pragmatic.
Past that: do I include iLife 08 and iWork 08? Or sell those separately? I'm not sure which maximizes profit.
Thoughts or suggestions?
(And if you'd like nice dual 1.8 GHz G5 tower, PM me. It's not on eBay just yet and I have a reasonable "buy now" price in mind. For an HTFer I can include legit iLife 08 and iWork 08.)