Free Snow Leopard Discs for MobileMe Users Now Arriving

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Do you need Snow Leopard installed to buy Lion from the App Store as it checks or does it check during installation? If you can buy it straight from the App Store, you can simply open the install file and drill down to the InstallESD.dmg, burn it to a USB drive or a DVD and perform a clean install.

 

[JordiCasals]

post-mobile-me

I didn't see this mentioned yet in the thread: I switched from mobile-me to iCloud many months ago, but still had one computer using Leopard. Apple still sent the SnowLeopard disk. FYI.

 

[AnonMac50]

You're right about the booting part.

But pretty meh to be required to first upgrade the system to Snow Leopard, then being required to download a bunch of software updates in order to be able to purchase and download Lion...

I was going to add that...

 

[Fank]

2 ghz intel core 2 duo

My scenario -

I have three intel core 2 duo imacs, one 17" blonde, one 20" blonde, and an aluminum. They all run just fine, thank you, in SL.


The two older 'blonde' imacs have 2 gigs of ram; the aluminum 2 1/2 gigs.

If I buy a 4 gig ram kit from macsales, for about $63, I can make all three imacs have 3 gigs of ram.

Will my imacs be able to run Lion OK? I KNOW what the minimum system requirements are, 2 gigs of ram and a core 2 duo.

My assumption though is that they are near the end of the line as far as upgrades go, perhaps as soon as with Mountain Lion.