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How to Install Mac OS X (Tiger, Leopard, or Snow Leopard) on a PC: EDIT: This guide is very outdated and it doesn't exactly go into specifics all that well. By now there are much easier and less time-consuming ways to install Mac OS X on a PC. It will be kept up here for archiving purposes. Today I will sho. Mother Mountain Goat Protect Her Baby From Snow Leopard Hunting, Animals Hunt Fail#WAPanimals #africawildanimals #wildanimalsplanetWelcome to Animals Channe. Upgrade to Mountain Lion (do not do a clean wipe). Then re-install Mountain Lion again. Whereas the upgrade essentially checks and patches the system to make it the new OS, re-installing will effectively wipe the entire OS, leaving your user & network data intact.
Can you go straight from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion or Do You Need To Install Lion
Adobe Adobe Acrobat Pro XI Adobe for Windows Affinity Photo Boom 3D DisplayFusion Pro GTA Vice City Mac OS macOS Sierra 10.12 Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9 ISO Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 Microsoft Word MS Office MS Office 2007 PC Software Revo Uninstaller Pro 4.1.5 Softwares Windows Windows NT 3.1 Windows NT 3.5 / 3.51. The Snow Leopard is the same or the code for Mac OS X 10.6, and it is the first release. While the Lion is the upgraded version, the code for Mac OS X 10.7. It is the latest version. Expected the new improvements than the first one.
Michael – As far as I know you can only upgrade from Snow Leopard 10.6 to Lion or Mountain Lion. A huge amount changed between 10.5 and 10.6 although most of it is not visible and has led to some online comments about it being a minor upgrade.
I would therefore recommend that you do the upgrade from 10.5 Leopard to 10.6 Snow Leopard so that you can download 10.8.2 Mountain Lion, but use many of the guides available on the net to create a 10.8.2 bootable installer on a 8Gb USB stick so you can wipe your hard drive and do a clean install of all your apps and data.
Don’t even think about doing this without a backup, possibly two, just in case. John Blagden
Mike,
This might help:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4165083?start=0&tstart=0 Leopard Lion Hybrid
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Apple Support CommunitiesUpgrade leopard to mountain lion without paying snow leopard or lion?
Hi guys,
Just wanna ask before Upgrading to mountain lion. Here goes.
I have an old macbook unibody which is 2gb ddr3 and 10.5.8 os.
th store technician told me to pay $25 to upgrade my leopard to snow leopard, then I pay another $20 to mac store to
download the mountain lion.
I just feel ridiculious because i will never use the snow leopard and the $25 will just dissappear into thin air
So, Is it possible to upgrade leopard 10.5.8 to mountain lion 10.8 without paying snow leopard or lion?
thanks in advance for any info.
Nero
Aug 1, 2012 5:28 AM (in response to F.Nero)
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
So, Is it possible to upgrade leopard 10.5.8 to mountain lion 10.8 without paying snow leopard or lion?
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In a word, no.
Today Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 is only available as a download from the Mac App Storefor $20.
Os x yosemite launch. To get the Mac App Store, you must purchase a $25 (price you were quoted) Snow Leopard OS X upgrade on disc, and update it to 10.6.6, or later.
Total Cost $45.
OS X 10.7 Lion was originally released as a download-only from the Mac App Store for $30. (Still requires Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later – you were quoted $25.) to upgrade to Snow Leopard then Lion and stay on Lion OS X 10.7 for the moment.
Total cost = $55.
OS X 10.7 Lion was eventually released on a flash drive at $70 (versus $30 download-only price.)
So you could buy the Lion upgrade and remain on that version without purchasing Snow Leopard. “Savings” from not purchasing Snow Leopard = $25
Total Cost = $70.
Or you could buy the Lion flash drive and then you could download Mountain Lion.
Total Cost = $90.
Today, just a week after introduction of OS X 10.8, Apple has not announced Mountain Lion availability on a flash drive.
They could eventually, but there’s no way of knowing at this point. We’re not employees here, just users like yourself.
So if you don’t need to upgrade right away, wait a while to see what happens.
Leopard Fights Lion
Recent OS X upgrades are still a ‘deal’, even if the Snow Leopard upgrade just sits on the shelf and collects dust after being used for an hour during installation, and then never again.
To fully appreciate the low price of Apple OS upgrades, compare them to Windows upgrades:
$25 for a Snow Leopard upgrade plus $20 for Mountain Lion together are still only about half the $90 street price of a Windows 7 upgrade from a prior version. Windows 7 upgrades had a $120 list price when first issued in 2009. Windows 8 will debut in October, and that upgrade cost is rumored to be $40.
I’d also suggest a RAM upgrade to at least 4GB (and 6GB or even 8GB RAM if your system supports it) to boost overall Lion or Mountain Lion performance. Check RAM upgrade prices from reliable vendors of Apple-compatible RAM such as Crucial.com and Other World Computing (www.macsales.com).
Message was edited by: kostby
Aug 1, 2012 1:16 PM (in response to md05au)
Where in the App Store can one purchase the Snow Leopard OS X upgrade on disc?
Aug 1, 2012 1:17 PM (in response to aruenes)
Call 1-800-MY-APPLE. Not online anymore, just phone.
Aug 1, 2012 2:28 PM (in response to kostby)
So, to recap (and to make sure I’m clear on this), if I’m currently running OS X 10.5.8/Leopard and want to upgrade to 10.8/Mountain Lion, I can purchase 10.6/Snow Leopard for $25, install it and update to 10.6.6. (or whatever the latest version of Snow Leopard is), go to the Mac App Store, purchase and download 10.8/Mountain Lion for $20, and I’ll then be running Mountain Lion for a grand total of $45?
Aug 2, 2012 4:32 PM (in response to F.Nero)
Snow Leopard Mountain Ranges
I made a bootable USB flash disk for OSX 10.8, but I couldn’t install it on my system drive on my macbook pro running OSX 10.5. My question is, can I format/erase my mac hard drive and install OSX10.8 on a fresh hard drive using my bootable flash usb disk then restore my old files, user settings and applications, … etc. from my Time Machine backup?
Aug 5, 2012 8:21 PM (in response to F.Nero)
I made a bootable USB flash disk for OSX 10.8, but I couldn’t install it on my system drive on my macbook pro running OSX 10.5. My question is, can I format/erase my mac hard drive and install OSX10.8 on a fresh hard drive using my bootable flash usb disk then restore my old files, user settings and applications, … etc. from my Time Machine backup instead of upgrading leopard with snow leopard then upgrade to M.Lion?
Aug 5, 2012 9:23 PM (in response to ESA Publications)
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
Apparently no one in this MacBook forum has an answer, since many of us have MacBooks that do NOT meet the minimum specifications for Mountain Lion.
You might get a response if you repost your quetion in either the MacBook Pro forum or the OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion forum, or both.
Be certain your MacBook Pro meets the minimum Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 specs:
To update to Mountain Lion, your Mac must be one of the following models:
Aug 5, 2012 9:35 PM (in response to kostby)
Thankyou for your reply, but I was asking about the technique. So instead of buying snow leopard, can get a mountain lion bootable usb disk format the mac’s Hard Drive and install M.Lion from USB flash disk then put the applications and informations that were originally on the Hard drive before format from Time Machine using migration assistant.
Aug 7, 2012 12:38 PM (in response to ESA Publications)
Yes, I understand your question is about technique, and I don’t have that answer.
You need to understand a bit more about how Apple Support Communities works:
You’re NOT very likely to get any knowledgeable responses to your inquiry when you post it as an additional comment in this MacBook message thread because:
1) the original message title “Upgrade leopard to mountain lion without paying snow leopard or lion”does not accurately describe the precise installation and upgrade technique questions you have
and
2) This is not the main forum for the MacBook Pro computer you have.
What to do next???
Post your inquiry as a new question with a very descriptive title in the OS X Mountain Lion community forum:
You might also post it as a new question in the MacBook Pro community forum:
Nov 10, 2012 7:53 PM (in response to F.Nero)
I hope this is not to late and is helpful to you!
K so if you want to upgrade to Mountain Lion but dont want to spend the money just do this:
WARNING: MAKE SURE YOU BACK UP YOUR FILES BECAUSE THE METHOD IS GOING TO WIPE YOUR HDD CLEAN OF EVERYTHING!
1. Make a USB Bootable drive that has Mountion Lion on it
2. Plug in the USB and restart the computer
3. When the white screen comes up on boot, hold down the option key and choose the USB that has mountain lion on it.
4. Go to disk utility and click on your main HDD. Choose Mac Journaled and click erase.
5. After it is done erasing you then quit disk utitlity go to the picture of mountain lion and click on it. Follow the steps for set up and that should work. If you have any questions just reply.
Myninjaninja
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I like to do a clean install for every major release (using a USB stick):
http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/25/how-to-clean-install-os-x-mountain-lion/
Install in place will work and should provide you the performance you previously had. I found my imac performed even better with the upgrade. Macbook Pro worked well too. If you have time on your hands and want to squeeze out better performance, I’d go with John and Mark’s recommendation. Either way, I’d backup your system. Peter Hess
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