Lion Installations in Multi Mac Households

My daughter has a Mac Power Book and wants to get in on downloading Lion. I'd bought and d/l'd it yesterday and I remember reading in Pogue's column (?) or viewing it on a CNET video that subsequent d/l's are free for all Macs in the house.

How precisely do I partake of a second d/l of Lion?

Thanks.

pennysworth said:

My daughter has a Mac Power Book and wants to get in on downloading Lion.

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If your daughter truly has a Powerbook...forget about Lion...Lion will not install on a Powerbook (you need a Macintosh computer with an Intel cpu...and Powerbook's do not have an Intel cpu).

Now if your daughter has a MacBook...that's a different story...but then we would need more info...since Lion requires a Core 2 Duo cpu...and some early MacBooks only had a Core Duo cpu.

HTH,

- Nick

She has in fact a MacBookPro. Now what?

Ok, so you should be able to log into the App Store from that computer, using your login, and redownload it. If you haven't installed it yet on the first machine you can create a DVD to install from. I did it on 3 machines last night, all without issue (two macbooks and a macbook pro).

The license states, and I quote:

"to download, install, use and run for personal, non-commercial use, one (1) copy of Apple Software directly on each Apple-branded computer running Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server ("Mac Computer") that you own or control"

It also grants license to have up to 2 virtual machines on each Mac.

I updated all three of mine yesterday. Here is the link to the cnet site with info about burning DVD I did this to upgrade my mini and it worked fine.
How to create an OS X Lion installation disc | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews

lilmill said:

I updated all three of mine yesterday. Here is the link to the cnet site with info about burning DVD I did this to upgrade my mini and it worked fine.
How to create an OS X Lion installation disc | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews

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can this be done to SD drive as oppose to dvd or USB drive ?

Thanks again. But once I'm at the App Store what do I do to d/l without having to pay again?

Log in with your appleID and go to purchase. Download it from there.

It keeps asking for credit card info. No option that I can see to avoid it. Do I go to the App Store or should I approach this differently?

Did you log in with the same account you bought it from? If no, do so. If so, perhaps contact Apple