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Apple Makes OS X Lion and Mountain Lion Free to Download

pray2crom said:
My 15" 2012 macbook pro came with mountain lion....I am on catilina now. I wonder if going back would be better. I would be getting nvidia cuda support back and better text fonts since my mac isn't a retina.
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Will also depend on how much apple cloud service integration you want. Most ol OS stuff generally works but can be a bit glitchy at times
 
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mcfrazieriv said:
Wait... you had to pay for these for the last decade meanwhile the newer macOS variants were free?
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Way, way back when Cheatah 10.0 was released it used to cost Aus $119 from memory, then every year about the same, eventually dropped to Aus$30 and then to Aus $19.95 (these numbers are all from memory and cannot tell you which specific OS changed to new pricing apart from when became downloadable the price came down enormously). The early pricing was well less than that of MS and bear in mind there was physical media, boxes, manuals, freight and the stickers! too - this all costs money.
Yep could argue this should be built into price of new mac and to some extent was/is, but when you upgrade OS then apple need to recover some of the $$ for the OS as you are not buying new HW. Compare these prices with what MS used to charge and the SW wasnt crazy expensive with all the inclusions that came along with OSX. I know MS didnt make/sell HW back then but thats not the point - I'm talking about SW costs and delivery of that SW in a box. That and there was a developing services income from cloud, downloadables etc - lots have changed the way we get SW
But when people complain about spending a couple bucks on an app then these same people (not aiming this at any user BTW) ain't going to be happy to cough up for an operating system
 
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Yes but all the certificates are expired, you have to set your clock back on your computer to install these.
and ever since El Capitan through High Sierra the App Store update window is all wonky from a bad CSS from Apple.
 
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It was similar in the US with original OS X pricing. I believe it was either $119 or $129 for Cheetah. Snow Leopard was either $19 or $29. I'm a little foggy on the exact amounts but I do remember driving across town to get Snow Leopard on launch day, back before there was an Apple Store at my mall.
 
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Scott Baret said:
I only hope they can also do this for Mac OS 9.

It goes beyond wanting to run old software through any sort of virtualization on a new computer, though some of the older programs are still better than the newer ones, especially in education. There are still a decent amount of CRT iMacs out there, all of which could make a fine little offline computer for a kid who shouldn't be using the internet unsupervised. They're impossible to recycle in most places, so why not make the OS free?
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I assume you're familiar with MacintoshGarden?
 
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Anyone know how to extract the .app from the DMGs on a newer machine that does not support these operating systems?
 
Can someone explain to me? Why does apple made it free? What’s the point? Will it be supported at all? Thanks
 
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wow i remember buying them years ago for my old 2008 macbook. i miss that old laptop. mountain lion was my last mac OS :(
 
That's good to know for a computer techie like me that often works with older Macs, wiping the drives and preparing them for resell. But I've already got a Lion install USB thumbdrive in my supply of USB installers, but it'll be nice to know it'll be easy to make another one!
 
I was trying to update my old PowerBook G4 to Snow Leopard (yeah it would cripple performance but I'm not expecting anything crazy from a 20yo computer) but since the CD drive was broken I had to look for .iso files to mount. Would've been nice if Apple had provided them, but I don't blame them... no support for 20yo computer?! I instead removed the HDD and migrated the content to my iMac and recycled the computer.
 
2013.1 said:
I cannot find Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard 9A581 here https://developer.apple.com/download/ Could you provide a link?
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Maybe you are not entirely familiar with how to navigate in the developer portal. So I think I'll show you instead of providing the link.

So I assume you are logged in and the link you gave gets you here:

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rpmurray said:
That was when Apple still cared about QC and not farting out a new release every year, ready or not, just to please the marketing bean counters.
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The point is that back then the leader was a passionate dude… not a politician.

I watched recently while I was bored the keynotes of Jaguar panther tiger leopard and snow leopard. What a thrill, real innovation, useful well implemented features and good memories too. On top of that they had Bertrand Serlet and Scott Forstall on the lead.




Ok, back to reality now.
 
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mxrider88 said:
The point is that back then the leader was a passionate dude… not a politician.

I watched recently while I was bored the keynotes of Jaguar panther tiger leopard and snow leopard. What a thrill, real innovation, useful well implemented features and good memories too. On top of that they had Bertrand Serlet and Scott Forstall on the lead.




Ok, back to reality now.
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everything sucks now. miss Jobs
 
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