And the extra 1 hour to first install SL and then Lion isn't worth a lousy $10 to you?
cjc On 04/11/2011, at 10:03 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Nov 3, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Ben Kernan wrote: > >> Recently acquired an awesome 24" imac... came with 10.5.8... how hard will >> it be to upgrade to lion? > > Mildly annoying. You will need to 'borrow' a copy of 10.6 to update to 10.6.8 > so you can download the 10.7 install from the App Store. > > Apple sells 10.7 for more money on a USB thumb drive > <http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD256Z/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY>, which I think > will remove the necessity for upgrading to 10.6, but since that's $70, and > buying 10.6 apple plus 10.7 from the Mac App store is $60...it's cheaper to > go the annoying route... > > <http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A?fnode=MTY1NDAzOA> 10.6 $29.99 > <http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-lion/id444303913?mt=12> 10.7 $29.99 > > Note that the Q&A associated with the thumb drive above seems to indicate > that you CAN do a new install of 10.7 with the thumb drive, just not an > update, so if you have a backup (either Time Machine or CCC or other) of your > data, Migration Assistant will handle moving your data over. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
