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2.2 GHz (Turbo Boost up to 3.4 GHz), 2.5 GHz (Turbo Boost up to 3.7 GHz), or 2.8 GHz (Turbo Boost up to 4.0 GHz) quad-core Intel Core i7 processor with 6 MB shared L3 cache.

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Installing fresh Mac OS X - what about license?

I have lost my SSD disk with Mac OS X Catalina installed.

Now I bought new SSD and want to install fresh Mac OS X on this new SSD disk.

My friend who have working Mac OS will download Mac OS X Big Sur installation disk and create a bootable pendrive.

I will install fresh Big Sur using that pendrive but what about licensing?

Isn't it that the Mac OS X installation disk will be assigned the Apple ID of my friend or license code of my firend's MacBook?

I will use XCode software on my Mac and need to make sure the OS is all legal.

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The key to your stuff on your drive is your user ID (and if encrypted the written down key which you should have) and for iCloud your Apple ID.

The OS license is assumed as you are running it on an Apple computer. So don’t fret about it.

Hopefully you have been good backing up your stuff using TimeMachine if you have during the OS install it will ask you if you have data to migrate this is the point you need access to your backup and when asked to replace the current User account I would do so and make sure to fully install all the user data, that way you will be back to where you where.

But we do have a wrinkle here as the thumb drive is not the macOS you had installed I strongly recommend you have your friend create a new drive with Catalina. Access it from here How to download macOS and follow this guide to convert it Create a bootable installer for macOS

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