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I just left the Apple Store and am sitting in a downstairs Internet cafe. My visit was to ask the following question...
"If I buy Lion here and download it to my Macbook, can I take it home and install it on three (of mine) Snow Leopard Macs?"
The answers I got were as follows...
"Yes, you can."
"No. You have to download Lion to each machine individually."
"No. You have to buy Lion for each Mac."
"Yes, you can put Lion on 5 Macs that you own, but I don't think you can use a single image."
"Can you bring the machines in?" (Haul a 27" iMac 150 miles by car one way and then carry it 1000 feet into the bottom of a mall, also one way. Then go back and get the others.)
"Why don't you just download Lion?" (Probably because it would take fourteen months on the speeds available to my area.)
"Why don't you have broadband installed? Everybody does." (!@#$%^&*)
I don't think that Apple has thought out the process whereby the fifty percent of the country who can't get decent connectivity can download massive software. Or at least they haven't shared that information with their stores.
"If I buy Lion here and download it to my Macbook, can I take it home and install it on three (of mine) Snow Leopard Macs?"
The answers I got were as follows...
"Yes, you can."
"No. You have to download Lion to each machine individually."
"No. You have to buy Lion for each Mac."
"Yes, you can put Lion on 5 Macs that you own, but I don't think you can use a single image."
"Can you bring the machines in?" (Haul a 27" iMac 150 miles by car one way and then carry it 1000 feet into the bottom of a mall, also one way. Then go back and get the others.)
"Why don't you just download Lion?" (Probably because it would take fourteen months on the speeds available to my area.)
"Why don't you have broadband installed? Everybody does." (!@#$%^&*)
I don't think that Apple has thought out the process whereby the fifty percent of the country who can't get decent connectivity can download massive software. Or at least they haven't shared that information with their stores.