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Can I upgrade if I am still using 10.5.8?
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The option is to buy Snow Leopard the buy Lion. There is no option to skip an OS upgrade.
There is the option to buy the 29 USD version of Snow Leopard, then upgrade it to the latest version of it (10.6.8) and then buy Lion via the App Store for 29 USD.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/how-to-buy/
Find the $29 Snow Leopard, install, then upgrade? I have the same sort issue here...
Yes, they are saying that in plain grey on white. As they only distribute Lion via the Mac App Store, and the Mac App Store does only work on Macs with Mac OS X 10.6.6 and higher, that is your only option.
Unless you go the illegal route.
Still, the principle is annoying.
I would rather just upgrade the lion straight but instead I have to do a pointless upgrade to snow leopard.
You only have to do it once, as the download includes a DMG you can burn to a DVD or clone to an external HDD or USB flash memory thumb drive, from which you then can install Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
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You guys have really gotten cheap... A couple years ago we were paying $100 to upgrade from 10.4 to 10.5. Now apple has made it so that you can upgrade from 10.X to 10.7 for $60. You don't think that's why they priced lion at $30? If they released it on disk so that anyone could use it it would have been $100... Suck it up.
It used to be that Apple never sold "upgrade" discs. All retail OS X discs were the full version and that's why you could skip versions (go from 10.2 to 10.4, for example). But those cost $129 (except for 10.1, which was free).
$60 is a very cheap price for an OS upgrade compared to the prices of previous versions of OS X and Windows.
If you purchase Lion (or get it some other way) and download the installer on say a friends Mac. Open package contents and extract the DMG to a disk or USB, you can clean install Lion without going through Snow Leopard.
Problem Solved.
Upgrading to Snow Leopard then to Lion is probably the easiest option. If you look on eBay, you can find copies of SL for under £10.
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Good choice. TBH you should have gotten SL years ago.
novella said:
Good choice. TBH you should have gotten SL years ago.