Hello.
A friend of mine has brought his MacBook and iMac to me for repair. It seems that both may have bad hard drives. He has no DVDs for them. I've read the chart regarding Mac OS X versions on this forum. The chart says that I can download Lion for $29. With additional memory in the MacBook, I could install Lion. The iMac, however, has a 32 bit processor, so Lion wouldn't work. And I think I have to install Snow Leopard before installing Lion.
The only computer I have to download with is this PC. Perhaps I could burn Mac OS X to a DVD or perhaps I could download it onto a USB stick. Would the OS downloaded onto a PC and then saved to a USB stick or burnt to a DVD work on the Macs?
Perhaps the Apple store won't even allow a PC to download Mac OS X.
The other option is to purchase the DVDs. The chart says Snow Leopard is $29. But I haven't found it for that price.
I haven't played with Apple computers since the 2e days back in 1983. A friend of mine built the Apple 1 sometime in the early '70's. He later started a company building keyboards for the Mac.
Thanks,
Frank
A friend of mine has brought his MacBook and iMac to me for repair. It seems that both may have bad hard drives. He has no DVDs for them. I've read the chart regarding Mac OS X versions on this forum. The chart says that I can download Lion for $29. With additional memory in the MacBook, I could install Lion. The iMac, however, has a 32 bit processor, so Lion wouldn't work. And I think I have to install Snow Leopard before installing Lion.
The only computer I have to download with is this PC. Perhaps I could burn Mac OS X to a DVD or perhaps I could download it onto a USB stick. Would the OS downloaded onto a PC and then saved to a USB stick or burnt to a DVD work on the Macs?
Perhaps the Apple store won't even allow a PC to download Mac OS X.
The other option is to purchase the DVDs. The chart says Snow Leopard is $29. But I haven't found it for that price.
I haven't played with Apple computers since the 2e days back in 1983. A friend of mine built the Apple 1 sometime in the early '70's. He later started a company building keyboards for the Mac.
Thanks,
Frank