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Lion for Macbook Air

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drose8400

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I just purchased a macbook air from best buy. When I brought it home it did not have iLife or Lion installed on it. I took it back and they said it would be no problem to have it installed and sorry for the inconveince. They then called me a few hours later and stated that they were unable to install Lion and they didn't really give a reason why other than "the macbook air doesn't work well with Lion." Is this true or are they giving me the run around?

Thanks! Doug
 
They are giving you the run around.

There is no reason at all why lion won't run on a new MBA, or the 2010 MBA for that.

These laptops were built and designed while Lion was being developed and were always intended to run Lion eventually.

Even old old white plastic macbooks still run lion fine so tell them that you want a refund and then go buy somewhere else that has it preinstalled or is at least gonna give you a proper after sales service...

Damian
 
drose8400 said:
I just purchased a macbook air from best buy. When I brought it home it did not have iLife or Lion installed on it. I took it back and they said it would be no problem to have it installed and sorry for the inconveince. They then called me a few hours later and stated that they were unable to install Lion and they didn't really give a reason why other than "the macbook air doesn't work well with Lion." Is this true or are they giving me the run around?

Thanks! Doug
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HUH? Is it a new 2011 model or a 2010 model? If they wiped the Lion that came with it (a 2011), the only Lion that works is the one you download using the recovery tool. The one you get off the Apple Store doesn't work.

If its was a 2010 model (more likely), then I've read many people upgrading to Lion from Snow Leopard, so I don't understand the "doesn't work with Lion" problem they are having. This sounds weird.
 
The only issue I've read about is the 2011 MBA not running Snow Leapord !

My 2011 MBA had Lion running from the getgo and is awesome.
 
Sounds like you're talking to someone that's not sure what's going on there mate. Seeing as how my 2009 Air manages to run Lion like a peach, you should be perfectly fine.
 
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