Help with lightroom 2 please.

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I have just been looking on the adobe site at lightroom 2, and want to get it asap, but might me getting a mac soon and so wondered if I can get it now on a desktop PC, and then use the same copy on a MacBookPro. It says on the screen,

"Platform: Mac/Win"

but it doesn't give me an option to change it. Therefore does this mean that if I buy it now, I can install it both on to a Mac and a PC, or does it meant that when I install it on one or the other, I then wil not be able to install it on anything else??

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Oscar ;)
 
That's what I thought until i looked on the site where it says "Platform: Mac/Win", without letting choose between the 2. :thinking:
 
Not 100% certain on this but I think they are separate install packages. The Windows package will be EXE whereas the Mac package will be DMG.
The CD may contain both install packages but I doubt very much you will get one package that will install on both.
 
The important thing here is the licence key which is multi-platform so you can buy it on Windows and then install on a Mac later and use the same key. Adobe confirmed this for me last year when I toyed with switching over to the Mac myself.
 
pxl8 said:
The important thing here is the licence key which is multi-platform so you can buy it on Windows and then install on a Mac later and use the same key. Adobe confirmed this for me last year when I toyed with switching over to the Mac myself.
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While this is true, as my licence key is multi platform, one of my mates has lightroom, and his key is Mac specific (he changed from a macbook pro to a PC laptop, god only knows why). He was told their are various keys out there, but you can always swap it at a later date if you need too.Adobe have a policy of doing you one platform change free.
 
thanks guys
so does this mena i can buy it now and get it on a mac later with no problems??
 
Yeah adobe will have you deactivate it on the PC before activating it on the mac though
 
I have Lightroom that was initially installed on a PC. I converted to a Mac late last year. Rather than install the original version 2.0 I downloaded the later version 2.3, used the original disk key and it works fine.

Don't think I even deactivated the PC version
 
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