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Apple starts offering Lion USB sticks in retail stores

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Apple starts offering Lion USB sticks in retail stores

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Apple as it promised before before has started shipping USB drives carrying Mac OS X Lion in its retail stores. The $70 drive, unlike the USB recovery sticks, includes a full copy of the OS for those who can't or prefer not to download the whole install itself. Apple isn't offering Lion Server or volume packs in the same terms....

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I was wondering if you buy Lion OS X from the Apple store if you can upgrade from an older version of the OS or if you still have to purchase Snow Leopard first?
 
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You can not buy Lion from the MAS unless you're running Snow Leopard 10.6.6. That's because the MAS can not be accessed from a prior version of OS X.
 
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pek2001 said:
I was wondering if you buy Lion OS X from the Apple store if you can upgrade from an older version of the OS or if you still have to purchase Snow Leopard first?
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If you're referring to the $70 USB stick version of Lion, you'd have to call the store and ask or ask someone when you go in there. I don't think anyone on here has attempted it yet. Although, a Google search just might turn up a result - I haven't investigated yet to see if anyone's tried it.
 
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pek2001 said:
I was wondering if you buy Lion OS X from the Apple store if you can upgrade from an older version of the OS or if you still have to purchase Snow Leopard first?
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I'm actually wondering the same thing...

Never made the jump to Snow Leopard and would rather not have to just to upgrade to the current OS.
 

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