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Upgrading to Snow Leopard
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 5:22 am
by Jeremy Kill
I'm behind the times, I'm sure, but I can't backup my iPhone 5 to iTunes unless I have iTunes 10.7 and I can't have that unless I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and I only have 10.5.8
My question is: Should I just buy an entirely new MacBook or just upgrade the Mac I already have to Snow Leopard? In the long run I suppose a new MacBook would be good, but it will take a while to save up for. I'm not sure how expensive Snow Leopard is or if it is even available. The reason this is a problem is because I want to transfer crap from my iPhone 4 to my 5 and let my 4 die in peace (the power/lock button doesn't work anymore, so if it dies it dies forever). It's backed up on my old Mac, but it's pointless if it's not compatible.
Re: Upgrading to Snow Leopard
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:35 am
by Bobbyjames
I'm guessing you can't just go straight to Mountain Lion?
Re: Upgrading to Snow Leopard
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 9:59 am
by Mitchell
Upgrading to a new OS is cheap as fuck on Macs, I only paid €17 to upgrade to mountain lion.
I'm not sure if Snow Leopard is still available, just look for it in the app store.
Re: Upgrading to Snow Leopard
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:23 am
by Bobbyjames
Isn't Mountain Lion the newest one? Surely it will still be available. I'm just not sure what previous versions you can update from and on what age machines it's compatible with.
But as Mitch said, it's fairly cheap to update!
Re: Upgrading to Snow Leopard
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:45 am
by Mitchell
Bobbyjames wrote:Isn't Mountain Lion the newest one? Surely it will still be available. I'm just not sure what previous versions you can update from and on what age machines it's compatible with.
But as Mitch said, it's fairly cheap to update!
My bad, I was supposed to say Snow Leopard
Re: Upgrading to Snow Leopard
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 12:11 pm
by Bobbyjames
ahhh, that makes more sense now!
Re: Upgrading to Snow Leopard
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 2:42 pm
by Jake
Upgrade. It should be fine. Has always gone seamlessly on my macbook.
Upgrading to Snow Leopard
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 9:53 pm
by Jeremy Kill
Thanks, I'll go to the Apple Store this week and see if they have Snow Leopard. I don't think I can just jump straight to Mountain Lion or even Lion unless I have the other software, right? Unless I bought a new Mac with it installed already.
Re: Upgrading to Snow Leopard
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 11:55 pm
by Jake
Jeremy Kill wrote:Thanks, I'll go to the Apple Store this week and see if they have Snow Leopard. I don't think I can just jump straight to Mountain Lion or even Lion unless I have the other software, right? Unless I bought a new Mac with it installed already.
http://store.apple.com/ca/product/MC573 ... ow-leopard
I'm not 100% sure the apple stores still stock it.
Re: Upgrading to Snow Leopard
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 10:43 am
by Boni
Mac OS not have an option for clean install even if you can't upgrade?
Re: Upgrading to Snow Leopard
Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 1:21 pm
by Jake
Boni Boy Blue wrote:Mac OS not have an option for clean install even if you can't upgrade?
Kind of.
Re: Upgrading to Snow Leopard
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 4:16 am
by Queso Man
I bought my macbook in summer 2010 with whatever cat 10.6 is. In order to run some software, I upgraded a few months ago straight to 10.8 (Mountain Lion I think) for only $10 and skipped over the $20 10.7 (Snow Leopard?)