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There's still a problem about the "factory fresh" feeling : when you turn a brand new Mac on for the first time, you also have iLife already installed. I always
by KevinBongart 18y ago
There's still a problem about the "factory fresh" feeling : when you turn a brand new Mac on for the first time, you also have iLife already installed. I always specify to people I sell my Mac to that iLife is ready. Here's how to complete the "factory fresh effect" :
- When you have just shut the computer down after the introduction video, reboot it in Target Mode pressing cmd-T (hey, you're not already selling a unibody MacBook, so there still is a Firewire port!).
- Connect another Macintosh with a Firewire cable. The old one is mounted just like an external hard drive. An expensive 2GHz Core 2 Duo external hard drive.
- Use that Macintosh to drag'n'drop iLife suite into the old MacBook's Applications folder.
- "Et voilà !"
- danbenjamin 18y agoNeat trick.
- kylec 18y agoThe install disks that came with my MacBook (bought last August) had the ability to install iLife with the rest of the operating system, so before you get tricky with FireWire, you should check to see if the program is on the install DVDs.