Snow Leopard requires a copy of Leopard first in order to upgrade to Snow Leopard and then on to Lion. I believe that all Intel machines will up grade to Lion. However, the next OS, Mountain Lion will not upgrade some of the earlier Intel Macs.
Everything of course should be backed up before doing an upgrade, just in case. However SOME people are using the iPad without any computer. That would make it pretty difficult to get the music on to the iPad however. So if that is the goal, then an upgrade will be required. While iCloud does require Lion, I believe that iTunes and syncing to the iPad only requires Snow Leopard. Lynn Lynn Wegley See the InfoManager blog at http://www.ugnn.com/ On Apr 5, 2012, at 8:02 PM, Christopher Satterfield wrote: > For backups a simple backup of your files will normally be good, and that is > simple. The easiest way of doing that is to buy an external hard drive. If > you have 2000 MP3 files a 500 GB drive will work, and they aren't that > expensive, and the songs will only use around 1/50 of that, giving you room > to backup any documents\pictures\etc you might have. Just drag the files from > their location to the drive in Finder, it'll copy them for you. For security > it's best to store a backup drive off site, as if there is a fire or > earthquake (does anyone other than California have 'em often?), flood, etc, > there is no way to retrieve anything. > > As for upgrading, it's pretty simple. to do so, if you're familiar with OS > 10.4 then OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) won't be that much of a change. It's a > pretty easy upgrade using the DVD, just insert the disk, it'll want to > restart and then the install is very simple, just choose your language, hit > next, read the license agreement and if you accept it hit accept, choose the > hard drive as the install location and hit next, then hit install, when it's > finished it'll reboot and be running Snow Leopard. > > As far as I know you can upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard, I don't have an > Intel Mac, yet (getting a Black Macbook soon), so I can't test it. > > -- > 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 -- 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
