Hi,
I have Macbook Air with Mac OS X Lion pre-instlled, I purchased Mountain Lion upgrade for it and installed it.
And I may sell my mac next month with Mountain Lion installed, but I notice that if the buyer wants to reinstall Mountain Lion from Recovery HD, he has to sign in with my Apple ID to download Mountain Lion and reinstall it.
What's the solution in that case?
Thanks
MacBook Air (13-INCH, MID 2011)
With Lion, the only legal way to sell it with Lion was if Lion was pre-installed. Any system that was manually upgraded had to be restored to a previous OS for sale.
For ML it would likely be exactly the same -- resore to original OS for sale.
You sell the computer with the original OS X version it came with. The Mountain Lion you have is yours. The buyer will have to purchase their own copy of Mountain Lion under their Apple ID.
Thr problem Mountain Lion recovery placed over Lion recovery HD, so I see Lion recovery is gone, how can I restore it to Lion when I decide to sell it?
Then you resort to this from your software license:
3. Transfer.
A. If you obtained the Apple Software preinstalled on Apple-branded hardware, you may make a one- time permanent transfer of all of your license rights to the Apple Software (in its original form as provided by Apple) to another party, provided that: ℹ the Apple Software is transferred together with your Apple-branded hardware; (ii) the transfer must include all of the Apple Software, including all its component parts, printed materials and this License; (iii) you do not retain any copies of the Apple Software, full or partial, including copies stored on a computer or other storage device; and (iv) the party receiving the Apple Software accepts the terms and conditions of this License. For purposes of this License, if Apple provides an update (e.g., version 10.8 to 10.8.1) to the Apple Software, the update is considered part of the Apple Software and may not be transferred separately from the pre-update version of the Apple Software.
B. If you obtained your license to the Apple Software from the Mac App Store, it is not transferable. If you sell your Apple-branded hardware to a third party, you must remove the Apple Software from the Apple-branded hardware before doing so, and you may restore your system to the version of the Apple operating system software that originally came with your Apple hardware (the “Original Apple OS”) and permanently transfer the Original Apple OS together with your Apple hardware, provided that: ℹ the transfer must include all of the Original Apple OS, including all its component parts, printed materials and its license; (ii) you do not retain any copies of the Original Apple OS, full or partial, including copies stored on a computer or other storage device; and (iii) the party receiving the Original Apple OS reads and agrees to accept the terms and conditions of the Original Apple OS license.
C. You may not transfer any Apple Software that has been modified or replaced under Section 2K above. All components of the Apple Software are provided as part of a bundle and may not be separated from the bundle and distributed as standalone applications. Note that the Apple Software provided with a particular Apple-branded hardware product might not run on other models of Apple- branded hardware.
D. Any copy of the Apple Software that may be provided by Apple for promotional, evaluation, diagnostic or restorative purposes may be used only for such purposes and may not be resold or transferred.
But I'm still not sure how I restore to Lion that came with my Macbook Air.
If you did not save Lion, then you will have to transfer with Mountain Lion installed. To make the proper arrangements check out your Mountain Lion license agreement from which I excerpted the section posted earlier.
Hmm... Kind of an interesting conundrum. Technically the licensing agreement allows you to make a one time transfer. You are transferring all rights and are not permitted to keep any copies. If he sells the machine which he upgraded to Mountain Lion... how does he go about transferring all rights? If he gets a new machine, it will likely already have Mountain Lion installed, but what if he has other machines that he has already upgraded to Mountain Lion? Technically, he would no longer be licensed to use it on those machines. That might not apply in this particular situation, but it is a realistic scenario. I'm not sure how you would go about repurchasing Mountain Lion either if you do transfer the rights as logging in to the App Store will still show that you purchased Mountain Lion and allow you to download it.
This method of updating the OS has really made a mess of licensing possibilities. In reality, I doubt Apple really cares, on a user by user basis, if someone sells a machine with an upgraded OS on it, but continues to use that upgrade license on their own machines. This probably accounts for a tiny fraction of a percentage of the machines out there. But it does make it confusing for anyone that wants to go by the letter of the licensing agreement.
Hold down the key combination option-command-R at startup while connected to the Internet. That should get you into Internet Recovery. Partition and install, then shut down. Partitioning will wipe out the ML recovery partition as well as the ML boot volume.
Fortunately, this isn't a problem my lawyer has to deal with. 😁
Hello Kappy,
I'm glad I found your post on this as it seems to almost cover my scenario... Almost :(
I own a MacBook Air and my wife owns a MacBook Pro. My main computer is, therefore, the MBA. If you checked my App Store activity, you could see that I buy stuff 90% of the time from the MBA. However, I sporadically use my wife's MBPS on which everyone of us has a different user account.
When ML came out, I upgraded first my MBA, and then I went on to upgrading hers. In both cases I used my own Apple ID since I'm the administrator on both devices. My user has full access rights on the two computers, she is a plain user.
Now we've just sold the MBP. Yesterday I wiped it clean but I got stuck in the reinstallation process when I was prompted for my Apple ID.
How does this license work in my particular case? I don't want to lose the right to run ML on my main computer but at the same time I have to get rid of the MBP with a OS (whichever it is). I can't seem to go back to Lion anymore.
Thanks in advance for your time.
Marc
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