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Dec 25, 2014 1:04 PM in response to Luz De Lunaby Mike Sombrio,Exactly WHICH version of 10.8 did you try to install? I believe that mac shipped with 10.8.4 if you've installed a version earlier than that you've messed up. At this point you should attempt to do an internet recovery to reinstall the OS Computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery - Apple Support
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Dec 25, 2014 1:41 PM in response to Luz De Lunaby rkaufmann87,Luz,
The issue is very simple, your computer is designed to run with 10.9.4 or later, you cannot install 10.8.x on it natively. However what you can do is install emulation software such a Parallel's and then install 10.8.x on that however there is no such thing as a disc version of it. AFAIK this is this the only way you can get 10.8.x to run on your machine.
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Dec 25, 2014 2:02 PM in response to Luz De Lunaby Mike Sombrio,rkaufmann87 is more than likely correct. The late 2013 imac started shipping in September with 10.8.4 build 12E4022 and 10.9 was introduced in October. If your imac was built around October 22, 2013 it originally shipped with 10.9 and that is the earliest OS it can run. As noted above if you need something else you'll have to run it in a VM.
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Dec 26, 2014 7:23 AM in response to rkaufmann87by Luz De Luna,EFI Boot
Luz,
Being hostile doesn't help a thing. The reason your machine is will not run an earlier version of OS X is that the machine was never designed to, it is optimized to run the most up-to-date version of OS X when it was made.
In addition you are no communicating with apple on these forums, we are all end users like yourself. If you want to provide some feedback to Apple please do so at the correct venue, www.Apple.com/feedback.
Being Hostile??? I wasn't being Hostile, I was expressing my disappointment in Apple's Empirical Marketing strategy and actually I had thanked you for the information so you might want to check the actual definition of Hostile. and yes I will visit www.Apple.com/feedback. But to be clear I was not being hostile. I was appreciative for your information and it did help me so thank you. all the best and happy holidays.