help me get my wife's 2009 MBP from 10.5.8 to mountain lion!

[andymann]

Please!

Here's the machine's specs...

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,3
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz


We thought for surre that my wife's MBP was on snow leopard, but alas. Any help would be appreciated as we are both really excited about the new features in mountain lion!

Thanks!!!

 

[Dragoro]

As long as the computer meets the mountain lion speq requirements, you should be able to just buy mountain lion and upgrade.

 

[greytmom]

Have a read through this... May help:

http://www.macworld.com/article/1167868/how_to_install_mountain_lion_over_leopard.html

 

[eagandale4114]

Have a read through this... May help:

http://www.macworld.com/article/1167868/how_to_install_mountain_lion_over_leopard.html

This needs snow leopard.

As long as the computer meets the mountain lion speq requirements, you should be able to just buy mountain lion and upgrade.

The OP is an OS behind.

Please!

Here's the machine's specs...

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,3
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz


We thought for surre that my wife's MBP was on snow leopard, but alas. Any help would be appreciated as we are both really excited about the new features in mountain lion!

Thanks!!!

You will need a dual layer DVD or an 8 gb USB drive. Since their is no way to upgrade from Leopard to ML you will need to do a clean install. You will need to backup your data.

Try going to an apple store. Then ask them if you could download a copy of ML on one of their machines. Then create a bootable USB drive. Instructions here. Then clean install ML.

 

[maxwelltech]

Buy Snow Leopard for $29, and then buy ML on App Store for $19.
If you don't want to do this, then follow this Macworld article. You must already have a copy of Snow Leopard running on other machines, or it will be illegal.

http://www.macworld.com/article/1167868/how_to_install_mountain_lion_over_leopard.html

 

[andymann]

Thanks for the help guys

I'm willing to pay for snow leopard or lion first to get to it, but they've taken them both out of the store. Do I need to find a hard copy of one of those first, or is there a paid/legal downloadable version elsewhere on the web?

THANKS AGAIN!!!

 

[Irock619]

Thanks for the help guys

I'm willing to pay for snow leopard or lion first to get to it, but they've taken them both out of the store. Do I need to find a hard copy of one of those first, or is there a paid/legal downloadable version elsewhere on the web?

THANKS AGAIN!!!

You might be able to boot into Lion recovery from a thumb drive using this method....http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433

Download Lion from the Internet, you will have to buy it though.

 

[sdsvtdriver]

Thanks for the help guys

I'm willing to pay for snow leopard or lion first to get to it, but they've taken them both out of the store. Do I need to find a hard copy of one of those first, or is there a paid/legal downloadable version elsewhere on the web?

THANKS AGAIN!!!

Genius Bar should resolve for you if you buy ML, etc.