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Apple Computing Products:
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Can a Macbook3.1 (Late 2007) boot/upgrade from an external optical drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1681336"><p>Yes, you'll have to upgrade from DVD (the first-stage upgrade to Snow Leopard) -- beyond that you can just download the Lion one.</p><p></p><p>Yes, an optical drive will be available to boot from and should boot. Because your machine doesn't have USB 3.0, however, this is going to be SLOOOOOOOOW. If you have an enclosure for your external Superdrive that supports Firewire 800, that would be much faster -- but still slow by modern standards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1681336"] Yes, you'll have to upgrade from DVD (the first-stage upgrade to Snow Leopard) -- beyond that you can just download the Lion one. Yes, an optical drive will be available to boot from and should boot. Because your machine doesn't have USB 3.0, however, this is going to be SLOOOOOOOOW. If you have an enclosure for your external Superdrive that supports Firewire 800, that would be much faster -- but still slow by modern standards. [/QUOTE]
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Can a Macbook3.1 (Late 2007) boot/upgrade from an external optical drive?
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