Re: Does activating 8 disable 7?
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- Subject: [mg113913] Re: Does activating 8 disable 7?
- From: Pierre Albarede <pa.news at free.fr>
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:03:12 -0500 (EST)
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Hello On Nov 17, 11:27 am, AES <sieg... at stanford.edu> wrote: > Mathematica 8 arrived yesterday (that is, I downloaded the 1 GB disk > image which I get for free through Premier Service). > > I'm just starting the drawn-out process of moving from a 2007-vintage > MacBook running Leopard to a newly purchased MacBook Pro running Snow > Leopard, doing this one app at a time rather than via a batch > "migration" in the hope of leaving behind all the cruft that may have > accumulated in the older MacBook during three previous system upgrades. > > If I install and activate Mathematica 8 on the new MacBook Pro (only), > will that somehow disable or deactivate the copy of Mathematica 7 that's > been left behind on the old MacBook (both Macs talk to our household > WiFi LAN)? No. However, you may be infringing the license terms (but nobody will annoy you with this) and you may loose upgrade or maintenance rights on the older machine. Those rights will be transfered to the newer machine. > > Or will it maybe just block one of them from starting up any time the > other is running? No, this is technically impossible. > > I'd like to have an overlap period during which the older machine is > still usable while the newer machine gets up to speed. That is reasonnable. By the way, you could also have both v7 and v8 on the newer machine and forget the older one. For the people who have a working v5.2 on an old machine : it is worth keeping it for comparison. v6 you can throw away because it is merely v7 + bugs.