I inherited an old white MacBook model 2.1 from my daughter. It's gotten very slow and I figure after all these years (2007) it would benefit from a clean install of Snow Leopard to get rid of all the accumulated garbage. I am very familiar with Microsoft OS licenses but not Mac licenses.
She gave me two old install disks from the original OS X operating system that came with the computer but neither have license keys. The Snow Leopard she said she bought herself but I see no license keys on the package that I may need for a reinstall. There are some numbers on the bottom of the package but they don't look like the 4 section numerical format for Microsoft that I'm used to. Maybe I have the key and don't know it. Does Mac software need the license keys? I'm afraid I will get half way into the install and it will ask me for keys I don't have. How can I do a clean install with the disks I have or can I? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
She gave me two old install disks from the original OS X operating system that came with the computer but neither have license keys. The Snow Leopard she said she bought herself but I see no license keys on the package that I may need for a reinstall. There are some numbers on the bottom of the package but they don't look like the 4 section numerical format for Microsoft that I'm used to. Maybe I have the key and don't know it. Does Mac software need the license keys? I'm afraid I will get half way into the install and it will ask me for keys I don't have. How can I do a clean install with the disks I have or can I? Any help would be greatly appreciated.