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- #Buy mac os x lion upgrade update#
- #Buy mac os x lion upgrade upgrade#
Be patient: this file is 3.4GB, and takes a while to download.
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Once you buy Lion, an install file will open up in your dock, complete with a download status bar. Alternatively, you can just click this link. Just open the App Store under Applications and do a search for Lion. Pop the installer in, power down your Macintosh and unplug your backup drive, it would be a cryin’ shame if you accidentally installed over your backup. Make sure everything boots up, poke around a bit, make sure everything seems to be working. Once CCC is done, reboot your Mac with your external drive still connected, holding down the option key to boot from the backup drive. Now, depending on the size of your hard drive, you’ve got a chance to watch either the standard, or extended version of Lord of the Rings. Just remember to make your backup drive bootable, you will have to completely wipe your destination drive. To create a bootable backup of your main drive there is only one totally free, easy-to-use choice, Carbon Copy Cloner, and it’s push one button simple. Upgrading to Lion through the App Store is uncharted territory, and while it’s unlikely anything will go wrong, why take chances? Let’s make a bootable backup of your main drive just in case. Just be careful to know what you’re deleting. Give it a whirl, and you may be just as surprised as we were to learn that your ‘Downloads’ directory is taking up half your hard drive. Fortunately, our friends at Omni Group have a utility just for that. Our hard drives always seem to be shrinking, and it’s often hard to tell where most of that space goes. 30 days just makes it seem like they are deliberately trying to screw people out of being eligible.After you’ve cleaned up all your redundant files, now it’s time to ‘sweep’ your disk.
#Buy mac os x lion upgrade update#
Does that mean that Lion is coming out in early July? Because otherwise, if you bought your Mac June 6th, and Lion comes out July 10th, you wouldn’t be able to get the update because you didn’t request it within 30 days.Īlternately, you could request it shortly after purchase and then get it when it comes out… but they haven’t provided the method for doing so yet! What am I supposed to do… tell all my customers to keep checking back every week to see if Apple has provided the request method yet? If they wait more than 30 days they’re SOL.Įvery previous OS update I’ve experienced with Apple had more like a 90-day window after purchase to make your request, which is much more reasonable. They said the update must be requested within 30 days of purchasing your mac.
Lots of people really mistrust OS updates and don’t want to have to do it on a brand new machine. I’ve even had one customer return their mac because it was “out of date” and was very angry at us for selling them an “out of date” product because there was a “new version” out. I have to tell you, a significant number of customers I’ve dealt with do think there’s a difference, no matter how many times you tell them there isn’t. You assume that people don’t think there’s a difference between getting it preinstalled vs doing it themselves. Not going to be this route, but i bet similar info will be needed.
#Buy mac os x lion upgrade pdf#
And that was MS… they don’t do anything easy.Ī QUICK 2 minute search turned up this PDF from the Snow Leopard up to date form… you had a code, went to the MS site after a certain date and put it in.
#Buy mac os x lion upgrade upgrade#
MS made you jump through a couple of easy hoops to get the Free upgrade to Win 7 if you bought a PC after a certain date. They have to have an AppleID to get Lion, so best guess is it’s going to have to deal with an AppleID and/or a reciept. as a retailer you should just tell people not to worry, you will get Lion Free next month.
#Buy mac os x lion upgrade for free#
but just said “i’ll wait till Lion is out” can now just buy the Mac and get Lion for free next month. I think that people that want to buy a new mac.
not like you will have to jump through rings of fire 18 times with both your hands tied, and one foot cut off. (or the code itself in an email, tied to your AppleID) Like redeeming an iTunes card, or Gifted app.Ĭome on, it’s Apple. My guess, apple will use the date of registration when you setup the mac to email you a link to a code for you to redeem for a copy of lion. I just got my mom to buy a mini on the 8th, was gambling on apple doing this. May just be lawyers going over the fine print. the fact that you can get it free, should be enough. Apple is probably just ironing out the details, why publish something that they will need to change later.
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