OS X V10.7 Lion :: Mountain Compatibility With Early Mac Books?
Jun 12, 2012
I'm looking at buying a used MacBook, MB403LL/A. Release year 2008. This is a core 2 duo machine, and it has 4G RAM. On the apple site, it says that compatible MacBooks are: MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) So, would the machine above be compatible with Mountain Lion? It appears not. What would be the hardware change between 2008 and 2009 that would make it unsupported? Could it be that some MacBooks released in 2008 are not core 2 duo (perhaps just core duo) and thus cannot be upgraded, and the directive from Apple above is simplified. meaning that yes, a 2008 core 2 duo would be able to take the upgrade to Mountain Lion?Â
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Mac OS X (10.7)
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Jun 16, 2012
I have had a lot of conflicting answers to my question, so here goes.Would the imac (as sepcified below) be compatible with mountain lion?
Model Name:Â iMac 20"Â
Info retrieved from "when was you mac born"
Model Number: MA589
Group1: iMac
Group2: Intel
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Other Info:Model Identifier: iMac5,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 4 MB Memory: 3 GB Bus Speed: 667 MHz Boot ROM Version: IM51.0090.B09 SMC Version (system): 1.9f4 Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0017F2D4501C
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Jun 27, 2014
I am on Mountain Lion (10.8.2) now, and my Microsoft Office 2008 works fine. I am concerned to upgrade to Maverick (10.9.2), and loose my compatibility with PPT, etc. any thoughts?
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Jun 12, 2012
Though the Apple website says its incompatible, can it be installed in some way? If not, then will there be an update for Notification Centre and other new features for Lion?
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MacBook
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Sep 10, 2014
I had reinstalled the OSX on my MBP a few times so I am not unfamiliar with the process of rebooting from the boot menu, formatting via the disk utility and then reinstalling either via a backup or from the internet backup (as the retina does not have a dvd drive). Doing it this time and I did nothing different, however upon entering the disk utility screen, the main disk image simply wasn't there. I was conducting a reinstall of OSX from the internet and had already downloaded the new software, as you have to do when installing from the internet.
I then came to the disk utility screen, ready to reformat the hard drive and it simply wasn't there at all. The only image there was the one I had just downloaded ready to install. Thinking this extremely strange, I reboot the computer and it takes ages, then comes to a screen with a continually flashing folder symbol with a question mark in it. I have left it like this for 30 mins with no change. So now, I cannot boot normally, and I cannot reinstall a downloaded image on the main SSD because it is not showing at all in the disk utility. I have plugged in an external hard drive and am currently installing a new image on this to try to check where the main hard drive is once it is up and running. As mentioned, it is an early 2013 MBP retina, the warranty is up so cannot take it back to apple.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display
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Jun 16, 2012
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011). Will it be backwards compatible with USB 3.0 once OS X Mountain Lion is released?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Feb 25, 2009
Does anyone know which 17" LCD panels from the G5 iMac can be swapped with the Early 2006 Duo Core 17" iMac? My "speculation" is that the 17" G5 iSight equiped iMacs are a likely candidate.
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Feb 22, 2012
I installed Lion and then realized I couldn't use my Quickbooks. Of course the accountant called with questions that I can only easily answer through Quickbooks. How do I uninstall Lion?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 13, 2012
I would like to know if a single user can have 2 seperate address books on his computer at the same time? If so, how would one go about setting it up? I want to import it from my desktop to a laptop computer. Both are running Lion.
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MacBook Pro
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Jun 6, 2012
Reading books on a mac? Is there an app for this?
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 17, 2012
I have loved being a Mac owner since 2008...UNTIL now. WHO can educate me on the compatibility of Lion with the following (I currently have a 2G 2008 MacBook with 10.6.8 Snow Leopard)
- 2008 MS Office for Mac (Word, PPT, Excel)
- Have many old files in MS 2004 and even 2002. What will happen with these when I am on Lion?Â
With this move to Lion/the Cloud, I cannot get a straight story from Apple on compatibility of Lion with MS products (Word, Excel, PPT.). Totally different scenario when I was a PC CONVERT. Apple sales people could tell me all that I needed to know to move from PC to Mac. A little bait and switch now that I am on board.
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MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jun 28, 2012
I have a 2011 early mbp. Ive never had any issues with and and I upgraded to Lion when it came out. About 4 days ago it just would not boot into Lion at all. Would get stuck at the Apple Picture and the circle thing and thats it. I tried to boot the recovery partition and it would still get stuck at the same spot. I took out my hard drive and connected it Via USB on my iMac and it boots up just fine. I than used the recovery from the iMac and reinstalled Lion on the mbp hard drive. I put the hard drive back and it still wont boot up.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Mar 2, 2012
I am running 10.7.3, and I am trying to get Mackie Tracktion 3 up and running on my Mac. I've been told tha T3 works on previous version of the Mac OS, but not the last few updates. Is there any way that I can run this program in a compatibility mode, or revert my OS to a version that supports T3?
Info:iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
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Mar 15, 2012
I am preparing very soon to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion.Is there any utility or way to check installed apps to see if they will run under Lion?
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MacBook Pro 17 - 2009, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
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Jul 2, 2012
I have a Macbook Pro, early 2010, 13-inch, which I upgraded to 8GB RAM and a 750GB hard drive. It is currently running OSX Lion (all updates applied) but at times it will just freeze and Lion will not respond. The strange thing is that during this time the mouse still works and I can move the cursor around it is just that the OS does not respond so obviously I cannot click anything to shutdown or restart and all I can do it turn my MBP off and then on again.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Feb 24, 2012
I have an iMac running on snow leopard and am thinking of getting a macbook air running on lion. Does anyone know if I can use the optical drive on my iMac to install software on the macbook air?
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MacBook Air
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May 9, 2012
i have a an Exteranl USB Enclosure that contains a 3.5" IDE drive, this works fine when plugged into my 15" MacBookPro with LION and it also worked perfectly when i had Snow Leopard. So why does it NOT work when plugged into a friends 13" MacBookPro with it
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), iPad 2, iPhone 4S
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Jun 15, 2012
I have a Nikon CoolPix P80. Am I correct that this is simply not a sophisticated enough model to require the Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Updates? It is never listed.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Feb 16, 2012
This is my first post here I hope somone can help me. I have a MBP from 2008 I upgraded to Lion about a month ago and had some minor issues right away, but now I can't get past the boot screen without a kernel panic. I did a time machine restore to one of my external drives and it boots up fine. I figured my internal drive was going bad so I installed a new one yesterday and the exact same Kernel Panic happens. I don't live in a city with an apple store so that isn't an option for me. I am contemplating going all the way back to leopard because the was the last os I can remember that was completely stable for me.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 18, 2012
I've made the update to 10.7.4 last week and since then my MBP doesn't want to shutdown. I tried a few times, waiting for half an hour, but the result was the same. Also, the startup is slower than usual.
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Feb 9, 2012
Migrating to Mac from XP my first purchase was a MacBook Pro, and now I'm trying to come up with a method to print to either my HP 8050 or HP 720C. So far nothing works.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), with HP 8050 printer
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Mar 29, 2012
I have a Early 2008 Mac Pro running Lion. Its been running well but then last night it froze while I was on the internet. Pretty rare that this happens so I held the power off button and turned it off. Turned it back on and it made the chime noise, apple logo came up, a grey spinning wheel came up for about 30 seconds and then it stopped spinning and the computer froze there. Â
I tried a bunch of different things. I tried rebooting in safe mode, Recovery mode, From time machine external hard drive, Tried booting in the Windows partition that I have (its on the same as the boot drive I'm trying to boot in Lion off of). Â
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1), Mac Pro Dual 2.8 GHz Quad Core Processors, 2 GB Ram, NVIDIA GeFo
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Jun 16, 2012
After the disaster getting Quicken for Mac 2007 (or earlier) to sort-of work on Lion, has anyone checked if the Lion Compatible Quicken for Mac works on the new Mountain Lion operating system? Even though this isn't an Apple problem, I know I'm not the only person who would love to update to a new Mac; however, they all come with Mountain Lion, and many of us are terrified of losing financial data if there's another
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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May 31, 2012
With the impending demise of Mobile Me, I'll be making some changes. In order to utilize the full capabiliteis of new Mobile Me I'd need to upgrade to OS X.I have not yet done so because I have and use FCS 3 and Logic 9, both of which have been reported as having compatibility problems with Lion. I write to ask the status especially of compatibility between Lion and Logic 9. With sadness I understand that FCS 3 will never work with Lion, so I'll also ask of any FCS 3 users who have upgraded: what have you done to be able to work with your video created in FCS 3?
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iMac 3.16 Ghz 4 GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.8), also use MB 2.06 Ghz 2 GB RAM & iMac 2 Ghz 2 GB RAM
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Jun 5, 2012
I have been trying to install (from software update) the Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update for weeks now. I am using a Macbook Pro i5, Lion 10.7.4. Each time I run software update, after downloading some amount of KB, I get the following message; "The update 'digital camera raw compatability update can't be installed. The update could not be expanded, and may have been corrupted during downloading. The update will be downloaded & checked again the next time that software update runs."
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 8GB Ram
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Jun 29, 2012
I have received warning from Disk Utility that I should repair permissions as several files show incorrect permissions and, more than that, my 750GB shows "769GB available".Â
1. If I use Command+R and rebuild the disk from a Time Machine backup, will permissions be reset or will the files just be copied as they are now?Â
2. Is there a way to verify the TM backups to check the files therein?Â
3. Suppose, just for the sake of an exercise, that I reload Snow Leopard; can I still use SL's Time Machine to read a Lion Time Machine backup?Â
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 26, 2012
How do I erase mountain lion developer preview and go back to Lion 10.7? I do not have lion or data backed up on my AirÂ
I need a step by step instructions since I have never done this before, willing to set up partition if needed.
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MacBook Air, Mountain Lion
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Jul 4, 2012
just recieved my refurbished macbook air (2011) 2 weeks ago.Does it qualify for free upgrade to mountain lion ? The website only talked about "qualifying new mac system set..."
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Mar 30, 2012
How do I get my documents from Microsoft word? I have them backed up.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 4, 2012
I am wanting to download the new software for my iMac when it comes out in the summer but I do not have the OSX Lion. So do I need to download OSX Lion before downloading Mountain Lion?
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iMac
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