Downgrade to Mountain Lion

[tomf]

Hi,

Im looking at buying a macbook pro late 2013 model, with OS Mavericks installed. But I would like to wipe it off and install mountain lion.

Would this be possible?

I have a mbp at the moment with mountain lion 10.8.5 - would i be able to use that somehow?
I'd prefer to do a fresh install os mountain lion if possible.

Any help would be really appreciated,

thanks

 

[Asuriyan]

Macs won't run with anything older than the version that they came with, generally. The KEXTs for model-specific hardware aren't included in versions that were released prior to their launch.

You might be able to make it run- but chances are you wouldn't have Wifi, Bluetooth, working Thunderbolt ports, etc.

 

[yjchua95]

Hi,

Im looking at buying a macbook pro late 2013 model, with OS Mavericks installed. But I would like to wipe it off and install mountain lion.

Would this be possible?

I have a mbp at the moment with mountain lion 10.8.5 - would i be able to use that somehow?
I'd prefer to do a fresh install os mountain lion if possible.

Any help would be really appreciated,

thanks

It wouldn't even allow you to boot into a Mountain Lion USB installer. If you try holding down Option and selecting a ML USB installer, the Apple icon at startup would change into a Prohibited sign.

 

[Jacksonc]

My dad has a 17" MBP 2011, that came with Lion. He restored it to a Carbon Copy Cloner backup of Snow Leopard. It does have some problems, but not a huge deal. I've been trying to get him to upgrade to Mavericks, but never really got up to doing that. I don't know if your computer would work on 10.8, but I don't know why you would want to.