Snow Leopard retail disk?

[Camar]

My Macbook Pro (early 2011) came with Lion installed (no disks) and I want to downgrade to Snow Leopard. I don't care about saving my current data, I just want a clean install of Snow Leopard. My issue is I don't know which OS disk to buy. Do I need to buy OS X Leopard, install it, then update it to Snow Leopard? Or can I just buy the Snow Leopard retail disk? The reason I'm hesitant in buying the snow leopard disk is because it seems WAY too cheap for a full OS disk. The apple store has it listed for $27. My computer didn't come with any disks and I'm kinda new to Macs so sorry if this is a dumb question. Thanks

 

[simsaladimbamba]

The 29 USD Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Upgrade DVD is a fully working Retail version of Mac OS X and does not need any prior Mac OS X installation to work.
But since that DVD only has 10.6.3 on it, it will not work on 2010 and 2011 Macs due to missing drivers.

[SUCCESS!]Late 2011 Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard

 

[macfan74318]

You will need a copy of the disk, I bought the 2.2 i7 refurbished model and it came with Snow Leopard disks, I am not sure if there is a legal way that I could give you a copy. The only thing that I can think of is to create a "backup" (allowed under DMCA) and host it in my Dropbox and I could accidentally PM you the link, but like I said I am not sure if this is legal.

macfan74318

 

[Camar]

You will need a copy of the disk, I bought the 2.2 i7 refurbished model and it came with Snow Leopard disks, I am not sure if there is a legal way that I could give you a copy. The only thing that I can think of is to create a "backup" (allowed under DMCA) and host it in my Dropbox and I could accidentally PM you the link, but like I said I am not sure if this is legal.

macfan74318

Thanks, but I don't think it's worth it if we have to do something that might be illegal. I don't have a problem paying for the disk. Compared to Windows OS disks, $29 is already a steal.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Thanks, but I don't think it's worth it if we have to do something that might be illegal. I don't have a problem paying for the disk. Compared to Windows OS disks, $29 is already a steal.

Again, that 29 USD Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Upgrade DVD will NOT work with a 2011 Mac.

And again again: [SUCCESS!]Late 2011 Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard

 

[Camar]

Again, that 29 USD Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Upgrade DVD will NOT work with a 2011 Mac.

And again again: [SUCCESS!]Late 2011 Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard

Thanks, I wasn't ignoring your advice. I got a disk like the one from the post you directed me to from a friend. I'm going that route. Thanks again