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Install Snow Leopard on a 2013 MacBook Air

Hello.

I'm quite interested in buying a 2013 MacBook Air.

as far as I'm aware, that Mac model will have OS X Mavericks unstalled, but, due to work related circunstances, I would like to create a partition, and to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on that partition. Basically, i would liek to make a dual boot: Snow Leopard / Mavericks.

Question: Is it possible to install Snow Leopard on a 2013 MacBook Air?!

(And yes, I'm aware that Snow Leopard doesn't bring most of Mavericks functions!)


Thank you for any hel you may provide me.

All the best!

Posted on Mar 2, 2014 1:11 PM

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Apr 18, 2014 5:08 PM in response to MlchaelLAX

Hi,


I have followed the excellent instructions for configuring Snow Leopard in a virtual machine using Parallels 9. I Set it up on an older MacBook Pro, upgraded to 10.6.8 and then transferred teh Virtual Machine to my Late 2013 MacBook Pro. Snow Leopard runs fine. However, no PPC applications will run. They bounce in the Dock exceedingly briefly (maybe 1, 2 or 3 times) and then disappear. I use Appleworks 6.2.9 as a test (amongst others).

I have confirmed that I installed Rosetta as part of the installation.


Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Install Snow Leopard on a 2013 MacBook Air

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