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Lion Vs. Time Machine.. Help!
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1460758" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>Yes…I was just going to suggest that what you have may not be OS 10.8 "Mountain Lion". OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard" was the last Mac OS version that could be purchased in a box over the counter.</p><p></p><p>What you need to do is…use that disk and install OS 10.6. Then use "Software Update" (under the Apple menu)…to update it to at least version 10.6.6 (latest version of 10.6 is 10.6.8). Then call Apple (corporate offices…not an Apple Store)…to find out how you can go about getting/purchasing OS 10.7 (it was primarily a download only version of the Mac OS…but it is no longer available for download).</p><p></p><p>Once you have OS 10.7…then install it. 10.7 is still a perfectly good OS to run. Your iMac running OS 10.7 is far from useless! And even if it was…there would be no reason you couldn't purchase a newer Macintosh computer…rather than <em>"gets in car and heads to PC World"</em>!!!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1460758, member: 56379"] Yes…I was just going to suggest that what you have may not be OS 10.8 "Mountain Lion". OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard" was the last Mac OS version that could be purchased in a box over the counter. What you need to do is…use that disk and install OS 10.6. Then use "Software Update" (under the Apple menu)…to update it to at least version 10.6.6 (latest version of 10.6 is 10.6.8). Then call Apple (corporate offices…not an Apple Store)…to find out how you can go about getting/purchasing OS 10.7 (it was primarily a download only version of the Mac OS…but it is no longer available for download). Once you have OS 10.7…then install it. 10.7 is still a perfectly good OS to run. Your iMac running OS 10.7 is far from useless! And even if it was…there would be no reason you couldn't purchase a newer Macintosh computer…rather than [i]"gets in car and heads to PC World"[/i]!!!;) - Nick [/QUOTE]
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