Q: Snow Leopard can't access App Store
Snow Leopard can't access the App Store to get Lion. The Apple Store - a genius recommended that my MacBook could get to Lion with the model I had and to just get the same size hard drive that the machine originally came with currently (160 gb.).
So, with that great news, I went out and bought an SSD that was the same size (160gb). I swapped out the drives and the MacBook loaded for the first time. I used my Snow Leopard disk and have Snow Leopard. But, now when the rubber hits the road there are issues. Nothing will download from the App Store and I don't know what the fix is.
I know I wouldn't have bought more RAM and a SSD Hard Drive for it, because someone may have given haphazard info about my MacBook. But, at least this Genius appeared to do some research.
When I brought it to another Apple Store the second Genius played with his Ipad for a bit and said that is as far as you can go. I asked why, he said that's the info he had on his Ipad. I didn't get mad right away, but later I was like I just whizzed away $400 on upgrades on what is now like a Chromebook equivalent. So I made another appointment, but, in the meantime, maybe there is a Genius somewhere in this forum, that has gone through this process successfully. Successful help would be much appreciated.
I have a mid 2007. I had to swap out the original hard drive, and I got an SSD same size as the one before (as suggested by Apple Store).
Apple MacBook "Core 2 Duo" 2.16 13" (Black) Specs
Identifiers: Mid-2007 - MB063LL/A - MacBook2,1 - A1181 - 2139
upgraded to 2 gb Ram
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Posted on Sep 16, 2016 4:41 PM