Upgrade to Mountain Lion from 10.5.8?

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gcnaz Author

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Upgrade to Mountain Lion from 10.5.8?

I have a Macbook Pro with OS X 10.5.8 and would like to upgrade to Mountain Lion. How can I do this?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jul 25, 2012 4:48 PM

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Niel

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Jul 25, 2012 4:52 PM in response to gcnaz

You'll need to find and install a Mac OS X 10.6 DVD or 10.7 USB thumbdrive and then get the installer from the Mac App Store. The installer can't be downloaded or run from 10.5.8, and if run from a compatible OS, won't upgrade the 10.5.8 system.

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Jul 25, 2012 5:03 PM in response to gcnaz

EDIT

Niel beat me to it.

One thing to add though is that you computer would have to meet the requirmetns listed here:

http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/

Matt

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gcnaz Author

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Jul 25, 2012 5:19 PM in response to Matthew Morgan

Thank you both... I appreciate the help!

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ds store

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Jul 25, 2012 5:23 PM in response to gcnaz

Dont' bother on a 10.5 era issued Mac, it's too dated and run slow as well as need more RAM, 10.6.3 to 10.6.8 is the best you should do for that machine.

10.7/10.8 won't run PPC based software of 10.5/10.6 neither.

Save 10.8 for a new Mac instead.

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