Re: Lion on 2008 24imac

2011-11-04 Thread Christopher Collins
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?

Re: Lion on 2008 24imac

2011-11-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Christopher Collins wrote: And the extra 1 hour to first install SL and then Lion isn't worth a lousy $10 to you? cjc That truly depends on my time constraints. Installing SL actually takes about ten minutes of my time. It takes an hour of the *computer's*

Lion on 2008 24imac

2011-11-03 Thread Ben Kernan
Recently acquired an awesome 24 imac... came with 10.5.8... how hard will it be to upgrade to lion?    Ben Kernan graphite g-4 1gig/400/52, iPhone-Dedicated Mac user since 1990 -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and

Re: Lion on 2008 24imac

2011-11-03 Thread Christopher Satterfield
As long as this is a Core 2 Duo or newer and has at lease (I believe) 2 gigs of ram it'll be quite simple. The Core Duo's can run Lion do to a lack of 64-bit support and a PowerPC can't run even Snow Leopard. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for

Re: Lion on 2008 24imac

2011-11-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
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

Re: Lion on 2008 24imac

2011-11-03 Thread John Carmonne
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? Ben Kernan graphite g-4 1gig/400/52, iPhone-Dedicated Mac user since 1990 It will install easy but I'd be sure to make a backup of your