Installing Snow Leopard in new Mac Book Pro with Retina Display

MrHoffman wrote:

The trackpad behavior might be an issue with the VM; certainly worth a question to those folks.

It has already been posted and waiting a reply on the Parallels support forum...

binaryme

Help me??

I would and need to install The Snow Leopard in my new mac book (bought 2012, Dec).

Came with ML 10.8.2.

Send me a e-mail and tell me how.

Best Regards

Danks

e-mail: danielsarkis@hotmail.com

Guess What!

I managed to install OS X 10.6.8 on my MacBook Pro Retina by booting it in Target Disk Mode from my MacPro desk top model and installing from there. It will boot as an external drive and run my Mac Pro, But will not boot on its own and run the MBP Retina. So this just proves that the hardware in the MBP Retina is not suitable for the Snow Leapard OsX. 😟

This is really frustrating for me too as I have a Avid Mbox 2 audio interface that will only run in OsX before Lion and Avid are really dragging there heals in updating the Drivers for the Mbox 2 rto work in Mountain Lion. I want to use my MBPR for mobile recording and I don't want to have to buy a new Audio Interface. It would help if Avid were to give a release date but they haven't yet. Does anyone know if the Mbox will work with VM ware on the MBPR? 😕

Try this: Installing Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) into Parallels

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I also would like to run Snow on one of the new Macbooks, because I don't like Lion or Mountain Lion, and because most audio manufacturers are slow to upgrade drivers for new Mac operating systems. To have my audio setup in Snow with a quad-core would be nice. I run Logic 9 in Snow thru an M-Audio Firewire Solo. A Hackintosh is another possibility to run my audio setup in a quad-core but stability issues might become a plague. Other users are right to point out vitrual solutions; however, these are rarely acceptable to audio needs.