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So how do I buy OS X Lion?? - Very confused


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So I have this older Mac Pro with Leopard, not even snow, just OS 10.5.

 

I want to move to Lion, but I usually like to do it the following way:

- buy a new drive

- install the new OS on the new drive

- manually move whatever I want from my old system drive to the new one over the course of a few months

 

The question is, how do I buy OS X Lion since I don't have a mac app store? :shock:

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So I have this older Mac Pro with Leopard, not even snow, just OS 10.5.

 

I want to move to Lion, but I usually like to do it the following way:

- buy a new drive

- install the new OS on the new drive

- manually move whatever I want from my old system drive to the new one over the course of a few months

 

The question is, how do I buy OS X Lion since I don't have a mac app store? :shock:

 

You have to upgrade to snow leopard and then you can digitally download Lion.

 

I hope you aren't doing this because of the 9.1.6 update.

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Cool, but, legally at least, I still have to first install Leopard and then upgrade to snow leopard before I install Lion - correct?

 

If that's the case, maybe I should just install Leopard on the new drive, then purchase the snow leopard upgrade, then purchase Lion from the Mac App Store?

 

Man they sure made it confusing! :?

 

I hope you aren't doing this because of the 9.1.6 update.

There are other reasons, but that's certainly one of them. And why not?

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