i am running snow leopard, can i download "loin", on top of this?

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as above,

ever time i look at apple home page, i find confliting views or lack of "Lion ", down load.

i purchased snow leopard, on biing informed that, this was the next move from "leopard",

to allow me to move into Cloud./

any help out therr?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), getting confliting info?

Posted on Apr 24, 2012 5:51 PM

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You can install Lion, but I recommend making sure you have a backup of your present system (Time Machine backup or clone).

You are correct - iCloud requires Lion; Lion requires Snow Leopard as a prerequsite to buying it.

If you don't clone your current system to another volume Snow Leopard will be lost.

Make sure your system can handle Lion:

OS X Lion system requirements

To use Lion, make sure your computer has the following:

An Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
Mac OS X v10.6.6 or later to install via the Mac App Store (v10.6.8 recommended); you can install without Mac OS X v10.6 by using an OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive, available on the Apple Online Store
7 GB of available disk space
2 GB of RAM

Note: many users consider 2 GB inadequate. 4 GB is a more realistic minimum.

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