New 10.5 MacBook Pros and MacPros

[rdagel]

Which is best for building the master image off of? Both are shipping with
different flavors of 10.5.

Rich

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[ernstcs]

So you'll also notice if you make an image on the MacBook and put in on a MacBook Pro that you'll have a new Airport 1 adapter, it doesn't want to be the same.

Craig

[John_Wetter]

No personaly expereince yet with these, but whichever is the newer build is what I'd use, given they revised the hardware on the same day. Hopefully they both have all the drivers. 10.5.3 should also be out soon which will likely roll up all the drivers. To remember shipping dates for finding the newest hardware, and also for info on when we might see an update, I use mac rumor's buying guide: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

They do a pretty good job and nice references.

-John

[milesleacy]

Unless reasons against it come out, I always go with the latest pro
portable. If you build your master 10.5.2 image on a Mac Pro, you may be
missing trackpad, isight, accelerometer, bluetooth and airport software.

A combo update provide some of this, but since the 10.5.2 build shipping
with the new machines is a newer revision than the 10.5.2 combo updater,
and the 10.5.3 update isn't released yet, you'd have to know exactly what
you're looking for, harvest it from an installed MacBook Pro and copy it to
the Mac Pro.

It's easier to build on the portable, and I've never had a problem with
dropping that image onto a desktop.

What I'm curious about is if we will be able to image MacBook Airs with an
image developed on a MacBook Pro after applying the 10.5.3 Combo update
(once it's available).

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[#5]

When I built my 10.5.2 Base OS, I started on the MacBook Air, then I re-ran the combo updater after putting that image on an iMac Intel Aluminum. This added back the Ethernet Built-In port that the Macbook Air was missing. Maybe some other things I didn't know about. Interesting thing is that on the MacBook Air, the wireless is called (en0) which usually is the built-in ethernet, then the USB Ethernet dongle is called (en1). Then if we put the image on a iMac, it is the same designation-- (en0) for wireless and (en1) for wired. However, it appears that the JSS shows the devices correctly as Ethernet MAC and Airport MAC. I don't think it matters too much at this point.

Seems to be working so far.

Nathaniel Lindley

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[#6]

From what I have found you'll need to build it on the MacBook Pro or you won't have any of the drivers for the multi touch track pad. Also the Mouse and Keyboard preference pane will crash if built on the mac pro and opened on the new Mac Book Pros.

Hope this helps!
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[#7]

My best practice has always been to keep two base images: one for desktops and one for notebooks. Each of those images is created off of the latest model I have. So, in this case I would create a desktop base off of the MP and a notebook base off of the MBP. You could probably keep just the one image created off of the MBP and push to all models.

Thanks!

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