Confirmed: GM and App Store version of Lion are identical

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digitalhen

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Jul 20, 2011

• #1

Enclosed dmg files are an exact match.

 

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santaliqueur

macrumors 65816

• Jul 20, 2011

• #2

Confirmed: You posted no confirmation.

 

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TrickyRick

macrumors member

• Jul 20, 2011

• #3

How about the fact that the download is called Lion GM Seed?

 

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senc01a

macrumors regular

• Jul 20, 2011

• #4

Mine doesn't say that.
Mine says: OSX Lion - downloading.
Still no confirmation to my understanding...

 

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blurb23

macrumors 6502a

• Jul 20, 2011

• #5

So if someone has the GM, they don't need to bother getting the version from the App Store?

 

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DMVillain

macrumors 6502a

• Jul 20, 2011

• #6

I downloaded the GM with hopes of being able to buy it when it hit the app store. I can't however so hopefully when 10.7.1 hits I will be able to. Apple deserves my $30 for this

 

dukeblue91

macrumors 65816

• Jul 20, 2011

• #7

mp0890 said:

I downloaded the GM with hopes of being able to buy it when it hit the app store. I can't however so hopefully when 10.7.1 hits I will be able to. Apple deserves my $30 for this

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Remove the installer from the GM and it will let you buy a license for Lion.
I just did that.

 

bigjnyc

Suspended

• Jul 20, 2011

• #8

mp0890 said:

I downloaded the GM with hopes of being able to buy it when it hit the app store. I can't however so hopefully when 10.7.1 hits I will be able to. Apple deserves my $30 for this

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dukeblue91 said:

Remove the installer from the GM and it will let you buy a license for Lion.
I just did that.

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Or just hold down option when you click on BUY and it will bypass the version check and let you buy it.

 

SuprUsrStan

macrumors 6502a

• Jul 20, 2011

• #9

Didn't they say every GM seeded to developers were unique in the way that they could trace exactly who leaked the GM to everyone?

Based on that, isn't that reason enough to do a clean install of the app store version?

 

nycaleksey

macrumors member

• Jul 20, 2011

• #10

santaliqueur said:

Confirmed: You posted no confirmation.

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I can confirm - both developer GM seed and "retail" downloaded install dmg have the same MD5 checksum of b5d3753c62bfb69866e94dca9336a44a. since Lion can be installed using this DMG only, we can conclude that currently Apple is selling the GM build. Doesn't mean they can't switch it to some revised version later since this is a download after all.

 

Lord Appleseed

macrumors 6502a

• Jul 20, 2011

• #11

syan48306 said:

Didn't they say every GM seeded to developers were unique in the way that they could trace exactly who leaked the GM to everyone?

Based on that, isn't that reason enough to do a clean install of the app store version?

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I have never heard of anything like that before.