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Apple Selling $20 OS X Lion and Mountain Lion in Online Store
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"Customers who have previously purchased Lion or Mountain Lion can download the operating systems through the "Purchases" tab of the Mac App Store."
Not true... Mountain Lion is not available. Lion is Available.
I'll wait until a couple of point releases and try again, since Mavericks doesn't really give me anything I had to have. I mean, I don't need the features it offers, given my usage patterns at this time.
Plus it takes some of the fun, skeuomorphic styles away for several things, so I'm good as is. Looks like I've found my Snow Leopard.
Mavericks took away skeuomorphic styles? I didn't notice anything missing besides the default mesh/fiber wallpaper on the login screen, if that counts.
As for the performance problems, they've been steadily going away. It started out sucking - and I mean everything, TextEdit, Preview, Mail, and Safari being terribly slow - but it's been getting better as if some optimization was going on. It seems as fast as or faster than ML at this point for me. Maybe even Minecraft would be faster if I were to test again, but I can't test it now.
TextEdit is still slow at launch, but that happened in ML as well. They make it bring up an "on my Mac" tab in the launch window that I really wish I could disable, and that forces my external hard drive to spin up. I miss it being simple.
For my account Mountain Lion is also listed under Purchases in the App Store and has a Download button behind it.
Yeah, it was available for me too until I clicked on it to download, then it disappeared and has not been seen since. Did you try and download it? Just curious.
I just clicked Download and it says:
"Would you like to continue? OS X 10.9 is already installed. Are you sure you want to download OS X 10.8?"
At that point I chose Cancel in stead of Continue. Therefore I can't confirm if an actual download would start. [Very late EDIT for later readers: I have now tested it and the Mountain Lion download was successful]
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No, it doesn't, because users of Lion and below don't use hardware that is compatible with Mavericks. Also, only Snow Leopard 10.6.7 is required to obtain Mavericks, so why don't they also sell Snow Leopard? Snow Leopard runs on a lot of hardware that those Tiger and Leopard users might still be using.
I think the real reason here is compatibility with third party applications. There are probably plenty of applications out there that are not compatible with Mavericks, and maybe never will be, so they just have to offer this to customers who cannot upgrade to Mavericks because of those compatibility issues.
They do sell Snow Leopard actually:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
Good question.
Keeping it in the Mac App Store I think would be to continue to promote it. It's just good business sense for Apple to promote their latest Operating Systems, people upgrade fast, more bugs are found, issues are resolved and implementations get fixed sooner - not to mention the draw it will have for people to it's hardware. I also believe they did this because of what Google has done with the Crome laptop. Sounds like a no brainer to me, they have showed this time and time again with iOS too.
Contacts received some similar attention too. Looks better but I still prefer the SL Address Book look.
A shame, but there is still a lot of life left in these old machines, especially for us who like to play a little....
Although my old early 2009 Mini can be upgraded to 10.9, I left it on 10.6 and it runs great as a backup to my 2012 iMac.
And believe it or not, my favorite machine is still my old PowerMac dual 2.3 with 16 GB Ram and loaded with 10.5. It's still my computer of choice for Final Cut and the old MS Office - It also does a great job of heating the computer room in the winter
this is just weird...apple wants us to put mavericks on for free, but, hey, get last year's, no year before last year's OS for $20 bucks? ...I mean, Mavericks has the same requirements as Mountain Lion...so...???
...I mean, Mavericks has the same requirements as Mountain Lion...so...???A shame, but there is still a lot of life left in these old machines, especially for us who like to play a little....
Although my old early 2009 Mini can be upgraded to 10.9, I left it on 10.6 and it runs great as a backup to my 2012 iMac.
And believe it or not, my favorite machine is still my old PowerMac dual 2.3 with 16 GB Ram and loaded with 10.5. It's still my computer of choice for Final Cut and the old MS Office - It also does a great job of heating the computer room in the winter
Agreed, my MB 2,1 is a champ with a SSD and 10.8, I still use my 1.5 12" PB for PPC apps and games and I use my 1.25 15" PB as a iTunes/iPhoto
No versions of OS X are currently available to purchase from the Higher Education Store in the UK. Therefore we are currently unable to (officially) upgrade anyone on Snow Leopard to Lion (for those whose computers can't run Mavericks), nor can we (officially) upgrade anyone still on Leopard to Snow Leopard.
Of course, we have plenty of Snow Leopard DVDs and Lion installer disks/USB sticks. It's only a case of legitimacy.
Of course, we have plenty of Snow Leopard DVDs and Lion installer disks/USB sticks. It's only a case of legitimacy.
ReDownload Lion & Mountain Lion
Hi Everyone, Is it just me? After reading that Apple will let people who have previously Purchased theses Systems ReDownload them by clicking the purchases section of Mac App Store. I have purchased BOTH of the Systems, But when I select download I get an error " There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (13) " I have tried deleting the Mac App Store Caches.db file & com.apple.appstore.plist files, But still get error.. Is it because I live in UK?
Hi Everyone, Is it just me? After reading that Apple will let people who have previously Purchased theses Systems ReDownload them by clicking the purchases section of Mac App Store. I have purchased BOTH of the Systems, But when I select download I get an error " There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (13) " I have tried deleting the Mac App Store Caches.db file & com.apple.appstore.plist files, But still get error.. Is it because I live in UK?
I find it odd that the iPad 2 and the Mini with Retina 16 GB are the same price... I'm an iPad 2 owner and was thinking about getting a Mini with Retina, and that keeps throwing me for a loop.
More on topic: good call on Apple's part to not rip people off on the older OS's.
No, Apple only rips people off on storage upgrades.
