My system is too old for Mountain Lion, can I still get OS X 10.7?

That's a good question. I'd suggest starting the App Store program. There, Lion has been replaced by Mountain Lion, at least for Macs which can support Mountain Lion. I can't find Lion listed anywhere but it might show up if the App Store is smart enough to recognize that for your Mac, Lion is as far as you can go.

If it isn't, I guess the only recourse is to buy the USB drive with the Lion installer on it. I suspect Apple Stores will still have some available for sale.

Yeah, that's a no go - I just checked the App Store from my mini. I was waiting to see if they would match the price of Mt. Lion before deciding what to do with my Mac Mini. I would like to know what Apples plans are to provide Lion for those of us left behind and cannot run Mt. Lion.

Launch the App Store application and try to buy Lion. If you can, it will run. If you can't, it won't.

Linc Davis wrote:

Launch the App Store application and try to buy Lion. If you can, it will run. If you can't, it won't.

That's the Catch-22; at least for now, Lion isn't anywhere to be found on the App Store - it's all Mountain Lion.

Not true Linc. Unless my Mac Mini 2Ghz Core 2 is now not compatible with Lion (which it was a few days ago) it does not show up in the App Store at all. And if I try to but Mt. Lion it tells me my computer is not eligible because it is not supported.

I just determined that my Macbook 3,1 is not compatible with Mountain Lion (after waiting for it for a few months (:-(( - missed the that little detail earlier) While I am very diappointed that this hardware not able to run Mountain Lion, I would like to buy Lion as well!

Apple: assuming you are monitoring this community, would you publish your intents and let us laggards at least get access to Lion?

Thanks!

apple appears to be monitoring these threads as i have just had one removed :-)

Similar problem here: black plastic macbook (currently on Snow Leopard), can't run Mountain Lion, still want to get Lion. Would be nice if the Mountain Lion upgrader covered this, and that the $19.99 price brought you up to whichever version (10.7 or 10.8) your machine supported.

That's what I was hoping for as well. To punish us that can't get to Mt. Lion by charging $10 more seemed a little unreasonable and I am hoping that's where this will go when everything settles out!

Right now even THAT no longer seems like an option. Thee $29.99 Lion/10.7 upgrade is no longer on the app store.

? And yet, the $69 thumb drive OS X Lion package is still available in the Apple web site store ?

Don't know if that is an oversight, whether it will just stay there while they have stock, or whether it portends a reappearnce of the download option at some time?

Not to be a pill to anyone here that still wants Lion, but it has been out for a year now, Apple has been promoting Mt. Lion now for a few months and stated 10.8 would come out this month.

I would like to see some folks here take responsibility for their own fault of not purchasing Lion prior to today.

I mean... "Come ON!" Jeez... you had all this time.

If you have been using Macs for a while, you know how this goes. Take responsibility for your own actions.

This is really a stupid thread and should never have been started.

Off soap box now.

Ciao

Yeah, I think you need to come off your soap box, sir.

I do know how this goes and Apple has always supported several versions back. Honestly, I have had a Mac Mini sitting unused for many months as I got a MB Air. I booted it up last night to see what version was it was running and realized I never upgraded it. So I decided today, since I am going to leap forward to 10.8 on the Air, that I ought to move the Mini as far forward as possible - that being 10.7.

So yes, we are ******* and moaning a little here because no where on the site does it say that 10.7 will become UNAVAILABLE. For christ sakes, 10.6 is still available in the Apple Online store (not apps) but not 10.7.

I assume 10.7 will still be available but was taken down for now.

I do take responsibility so don't put yourself higher up than us for the slower movers.

And some people are just realizing today that their machine will not be supported on Mt. Lion FWIW.

Sheesh.

I would say that "pill" is an understatement at best.

This is the first time that the release of a new version of the OS removed the ability to purchased the previous version. Even if Apple stopped selling the discs at the Apple online store, 3rd-party resellers would still be able to sell you earlier versions. With distibution of the OS pretty much exclusive to the App store, this is no longer an option.

Please go troll an android board somewhere.

Hmm, hadn't seen that the Lion thumbdrive option was still available, but I REALLY don't think I'm going to spend that much money for the upgrade on an old machine 😉 Let's hope that it does portend a return of a download option.