I just tried on a bunch of TiBooks scattered around the office, and they all installed fine...
One of our marketing gurus uses a TiBook of this vintage (800MHz) and he's had no problems installing or running the program. Do other hybrid disks work? > > On 21 Nov 2004, at 11:57 PM, Brian Williams wrote: > >> Thank you to all who responded to my post (Darcy, Hiro, Karen & Hal) >> >> Firstly, I was mistaken when I originally said I purchased my 800 MHz >> PowerBook G4 in 6/2001. It was actually purchased in 5/2002. Since I >> consider my usage pattern to be relatively gentle, I opted to not >> purchase >> the almost-$400 AppleCare plan. So, unfortunately, I am ineligible for >> a >> free replacement optical drive that would be compatible with the >> Finale 2005 >> CD. >> >> Secondly, before I called Finale Mac Support, I thoroughly tested my >> optical >> drive -- and it passed with flying colors with all kinds of CD-ROMS, >> CD-Rs, >> Red Book Audio CDs and DVDs. The only CD it spat out without mounting >> was >> the Finale 2005 installation CD. So I don't think that dust was the >> culprit. >> >> Thirdly, I successfully mounted my Finale 2005 CD on a couple of other >> computers, including a 4-year-old Dell PC laptop running Windows 98 >> and a >> 1-year-old 12" Apple iBook running Panther (it was through this system >> that >> I was finally able to install the program on my computer by setting up >> a >> temporary AirPort network and copying the files from its CD drive to >> my hard >> drive.) >> >> Fourthly, Finale Mac Support specifically told me that there were "a >> lot of >> complaints" about the Finale 2005 CD not working in optical drives on >> certain "older PowerBook G4 models", and that if they sent me a fresh >> CD it >> would almost certainly have the same problem. >> >> Their solution: either (A) find a friend with an optical drive that >> could >> read the Finale 2005 CD and transfer its files to my computer (which I >> did), >> or (B) replace my optical drive (or entire computer) with a newer >> model. >> >> So much for Mac hardware being "more compatible" than PCs! >> >> However, they did leave open the option that they could custom-burn me >> an >> installation CD that would work on my optical drive. I think I'll take >> them >> up on this offer. >> >> >> Brian Williams >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
