*** The OS X Lion Thread ***

Also.....

The OS X Lion Up-to-Date upgrade will be available at no additional charge via the Mac App Store to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorised Reseller on or after 6 June 2011. Users must request their Up-to-Date upgrade within 30 days of purchase of their Mac computer. Customers who purchase a qualifying Mac between 6 June 2011 and the date when Lion is available in the Mac App Store will have 30 days from Lion’s official release date to make a request.

When Lion becomes available in July, come back to this page for details on how to request your copy of Lion.
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http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/uptodate/
 
AtticusFinch said:
According to the apple website sl is a prerequisite as are intel chips.
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Sorry, I knew that bit, I was referring to you saying it may be saved to disc, which (unless I am wrong) has never been answered in a simple yes/no fashion, by Apple. Anyway, doesn't really matter too much, was just commenting.


rp2000
 
AtticusFinch said:
No worries I did see something out of the States re the saving/disc image aspect will try to find and link dude.
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I seem to recall reading something like that as well, i am sure by this time tomorrow, if it is do-able, someone will have done it :)

caris_2007 said:
So is the only way to do a clean install, install SL again, update to 10.6.8 then download Lion?
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I think, you can get away with using any version of 10.6 as long as it has App store on it? I think that came at 10.6.5 ish although updating from an out of the box 10.6 to 10.6.5 or 10.6.8 is probably the same amount of effort. (I'm not sure if all SL discs are 10.6.0 or if updated ones exist, like Windows disks that come with latest Service Packs etc).


rp2000
 
I'll deal with it in couple of weeks anyway, and wait and see if there's any significant hassle for instant adopters before upgrading.

It seems I've got the 30 days grace so no need to rush.
 
Considering you can install it to a blank partition... I think the SL but is basically down to ensuring that they don't have to cope with a mass of variations to support.
 
Will just download and install over my current Version of Lion as I'm currently running GM version.

Download > Install > Upgrade (Not going to do a clean install, can't lose all my files now) > happy new O/S.
 
Will download, see if I can create an install disk using the info already posted elsewhere, then try an in place upgrade. If I'm not happy with the result then I can try a clean install from disk, (or use the disk to do my other Mac).

There's practically no data on the machine anyway and the little there is is backed up to the NAS.
 
If it's anything like Snow Leopard then it will effectively do an archive and reinstall anyway. I'm not in the situation of having to choose what to do (hopefully the iMac will ship with Lion) but personally I'd have no qualms about running the install the way it's designed to work, ie over the top of Snow Leopard. The last two OS upgrades have worked fine for me.
 
I'll be doing TimeMachine + straight download install on SL for the MBP and then (I hope) a copy and install for the Mini.
 
This info was only spiled by one of the employees. still no real confirmation from apple...

their is a way to build a bootable disk for fresh install.
 
At an investors's meeting!

No website update or anything.

i don't doubt the launch, i just suspect apple is up to something....
 
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