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 Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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 [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
