I have an early 2008 MacBook running the latest update of OS X Lion. Why is the App store saying that Mountain Lion is not compatible with my computer? If I have the latest updates installed, why can't I download new software?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion
Your model is not able to run Mountain Lion.
Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion
Your model is not able to run Mountain Lion.
My biggest question, and one that nobody at Apple can answer, is what do those of use with older Macs do to upgrade now? I would have thought they'd leave Lion out there for older machines, at least for a while. But it seems to be completely gone, so if we are just beyond the cutoff and didn't upgrade to Lion (I had to wait until a project was done), we're just screwed?
I don't know, but I have made some inquiries to find out. Surely someone at Apple has an answer.
Me, too. Hopefully someone will get an answer. There are a serious amount of machines out there that can upgrade to Lion but not ML - there's still money to be made from Lion and with the current distribution methods, it really doesn't cost anything extra to keep it around for a while.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4136749
I asked a similar q earlier also. Held off instaling lion waiting for mountain lion. Macbook air 1.1 does not do mountain lion and now I cant even get to lion
Richard
You can still purchase Snow Leopard on the open market. I found these links:
You can still purchase Snow Leopard on the open market. I found these links:
I'm not sure what happens with Lion at this point.
Kappy,
You can still purchase Snow Leopard from the Apple Store:
http://store.apple.com/us/search?find=OSX+Snow+Leopard
You can also purchase Lion on the thumb drive:
http://store.apple.com/us/search?find=OSX+Lion
... granted, the latter for more than triple the price of ML.
Why in **** should you now have to wait to schlep phsyical media at such a ridiculous markup? $40 premium for a USB stick over optical media over (essentially free) download? What the **** is it, 128GB clad in titanium? What a joke.
There's absolutely no excuse for this crap.
At 5:15 pm the link for the Lion thumb drive turns up nothing. The Apple Store people wouldn't sell it earlier today either. Do you have another link?
See and add your concerns on 10.7 to the following: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4137043
Maybe we'll get someone's attention.
Neither of those links are now valid. There is no Snow Leopard or Lion. MAS customer support reported that Lion is no longer available for sale.
Lion is still available through 1-800-MY-APPLE, despite what support staff say. I did this about three weeks ago for my early 2008 Macbook 4,1. Call 1-800-692-7753 (1-800-MY-APPLE) and tell the automated voice thingy that you want to purchase the Lion operating system. For about thirty dollars they will email you a code and a link that allows you to download Lion. It's about 4.6 GB so ifyou have a slow connection (like I do) it may take quite awhile. But it has been working fine on my machine. I just called and it is still available.
Older Macs Downloading Mountain Lion
