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Mar 1, 2009

I have a nvidia white macbook turning up in a few days, it's missing it's hard disk and install disks so I will need to use a retail edition of leopard.

I would like to know if there are any issues with doing so. Are the nvidia macbooks running a newer build of leopard?

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