Buying your Mac with preinstalled software
By Eddie. Tuesday, 27. September 2005, 13:28:19
I was configuring a PowerBook through Apple.com today when I noticed that they present a radio button (in IE) and a Select box in Opera for choosing preinstalled software. The problem is, they only allow you to choose one item from the list (as select/radio elements are prone to do) but the choices are not either/or combinations. They are iLife, Logic Express, and Final Cut. All these seem like they are not mutually exclusive of each other and should be allowed to coexist together (although I admit- I know very little about the software). It seems to me when I was building my PB that I would want both iLife and Final Cut Express. But I could only select one item. The next page ("Do you need anything else?") did not present software that I missed out on the previous page.
Am I missing something? Does the preinstall of lets say, Final Cut include iLife? It's not immediately clear to me what's going on here.
Am I missing something? Does the preinstall of lets say, Final Cut include iLife? It's not immediately clear to me what's going on here.
WIDGETIZE
Anonymous # 25. May 2007, 00:53
You can actually select more than one item in that drop-down list. You just need to hold down the control button when selecting each item that you want
Eddie Lopez # 25. May 2007, 02:18
But the truth is.. it actually is by design (for some strange reason) I just checked this again, it's a slightly different implementation, but now they tell you that you can only install one software package (see the first line in the picture below). I don't know why they wouldn't want to sell more than one software package, but what do I know?
See:
http://files.myopera.com/Eddie_Lopez/blog/Picture%207.png