I'm bumfuzzled -- WTH is this??
Okay what ever happen to plug 'n' play or rather install 'n' go?
I'm bumfuzzled.
Here's the deal. Recently, I was "gifted" a mid-2010 MacBook Pro 320GB unibody from the parents of a young Marine who was killed in Afghanistan. The parents did not want the MCP and as a family friend I was accorded the solemn honor of accepting it from them.
Here's the problem.
There was nothing but the machine when I picked it up from their house. No MagSafe AC adapter. No installation discs. No other software discs. NOTHING.
When I did attempt to boot it up, I was greeted with a LOGON screen to Win7 via BootCamp. After numerous attempts to work around this pesky hurdle -- I decided to scrub the hard drive and start fresh.
My last Mac OS experience was Tiger (10.4) on an iBook -- and that was finally petered out -- and I just have NOT been computing that much.
I am complete NOOBIE when it comes to Mac OS 10.5 -- 10.6 -- 10.7 and most definitely 10.8.
After I scrubbed the HD -- I noticed that this "new-to-me" screen of Mac OS X Utilities was made available and that it instructs me to REINSTALL a new copy of "Lion" {10.7}. I clicked through. A drop down says that:
"to download and restore, your computer's ELIGIBILITY will be verified with Apple"
After I clicked "continue" -- a spinning wheel comes up and it says
"loading installation information"
And it stayed in that state of NO GO ANYWHERE for half the day.
So I called about and it was suggested that I get OS 10.6 {Snow Leopard} installed FIRST -- and then MIGRATE UP from Lion and then to 10.8 .
That sounded like a plan to me.
So, I ordered Snow Leopard from Apple. And then the head scratching had now really begun in earnest.
I have inserted the disc in the Optical Drive numerous times now. Clicked install.
NOTHING.
No wheel of progress. NOTHING.
What happened?? What ever happened to "ease of use"?
Am I doing something wrong.
Addendum. I have drilled down into the machine via Time Machine restore screen into the the Mac OS X Installer utility app to the "System Information" {what to my Old School eyes appears to be what I would have gotten from "About This Mac" or the "Profiler"}
And there I find that the machine is currently holding a base OS of 10.7.2!!
WTH???
Does anybody have any suggestions?? PLEASE??
This ain't supposed to be this complicated. It's a Mac for chrissakes!! HELP ME!!
Wow -- it's been over six years since I was here last with a question!!