Thanks, Steve. That's an improved article over the older one I had. I'm certainly going to do that as I'll need to upgrade my wife's iMac eventually.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:01 PM, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > on 2013-04-17 13:07 Bruce Walker wrote > >> While it's nice to be able to click Buy and get a copy of software, I >> could have driven over to the Apple store to buy this stuff (on DVD or >> a USB stick or whatever) about 6 times in the 4 hours that this >> download is taking. Holy moly. > > > be glad you are not on a 640kbps copper DSL line like mine, on which the > 4.4GB 10.8 installer would be about a 16 hour download > > i have also read that you can use the wifi at an Apple Store to download the > installer (presumably faster); i will probably do this when i upgrade from > 10.7 > > given that you have slowish internet service, you might want to follow this > tip about how to preserve the downloaded installer for reuse: > > <http://www.macworld.com/article/1167857/how_to_make_a_bootable_mountain_lion_install_drive.html> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
