Mac os updating question(s)

Deleted member 77746 · 9 Jul 2011 at 13:04

MagicBoy said:
How?

Lion is available on the Mac App store only. The Mac App store requires OS X 10.6.6 to be installed. It is not available on 10.4 or 10.5.

At present yes but is there no plans to produce disks? Or even could have asked someone to do a copy until he purchased a licence. Wouldn't have been a problem.

MagicBoy · 9 Jul 2011 at 13:06

iDroid84 said:
At present yes but is there no plans to produce disks? Or even could have asked someone to do a copy until he purchased a licence. Wouldn't have been a problem.

It's not launched yet or even been given a concrete date. The official line so far is no optical media or retail copies. Mac App Store only.

If you want to discuss Lion, may I suggest you search existing threads or open one of your own.

Deleted member 77746 · 9 Jul 2011 at 13:08

MagicBoy said:
It's not launched yet or even been given a concrete date. The official line so far is no optical media in retail stores. Mac App Store only.

If you want to discuss Lion, may I suggest you search existing threads or open one of your own.

Never wanted to discuss lion it was an option for the op but my knowledge with apple macs are limited it's why I joined in the discussion so I could learn.

MagicBoy · 9 Jul 2011 at 13:09

My point still stands. It is not an option for the OP without the copy of Snow Leopard he just bought for a bargain £20.

Deleted member 77746 · 9 Jul 2011 at 13:10

MagicBoy said:
My point still stands. It is not an option for the OP without the copy of Snow Leopard he just bought for a bargain £20.

I read that lion could have been used for as a fresh install from scratch just like the upgrade media like Windows 7 or am I mistaken? Does the OS get tied into serial numbers or any hardware tags or something?

MagicBoy · 9 Jul 2011 at 13:17

Ask me again when the final version has been released.

I'm off to watch the GP.

Deleted member 77746 · 9 Jul 2011 at 13:18

MagicBoy said:
Ask me again when the final version has been released.

I'm off to watch the GP.

Have fun.

mingeroonie · 9 Jul 2011 at 13:20

Like Magicboy said, other half wanted to play with iPhone, so I bought the snow leopard for twenty quid, updated from tiger, 1 gig update download.
Everyones happy

Deleted member 77746 · 9 Jul 2011 at 13:36

uniQ · 10 Jul 2011 at 10:17

You actually need 10.6.8 to be able to upgrade to Lion as it included several enhancements to the Mac App Store for this purpose.