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A Core 2 Duo cutoff seems eminently reasonable (especially since I have a 2007 iMac!). Especially since Lion will probably work pretty well on that older hardware. I would say that going back five years is darn good for any computer manufacturer. Steinberg writes that a “five-year window is pretty good for Apple.” That is a rather backhanded compliment.
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But it would be nice if Apple would provide some type of patch to Leopard to enable use of the Mac App Store to obtain Lion. Frankly, anyone who did not upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard for $29 doesn’t deserve a whole lot of sympathy, IMO. Steinberg paints a poor picture for upgrading from Leopard to Lion. My opinion is that Apple will include a Lion DVD alternative to downloading by the time that Lion is actually released. They don’t have to provide a retail, shrink-wrapped product. That said, I would be more than happy to pay extra for a DVD copy at the Apple Store. I upgraded to 6 Mbps service (around 5.1 Mbps actual), so I am hopeful of being able to download 4GB Lion in around two hours. Under my previous ADSL service (nominally 3Mbps download, around 2.3 Mbps actual performance), I could download around 1GB per hour.
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MacDailyNews Take: What do you think? Is Apple’s OS X Lion upgrade plan misguided? Are you running Mac OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard? Is a 4GB download a huge or non-issue for you? Read more in the full article, in which Steinberg asserts that, “at the very least, Apple ought to consider a combo installer DVD in a retail package at a special price, say $39,” here. Does this make sense for the company whose products ‘just work?'”
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Steinberg writes, “Once you’ve running 10.6.7 or later (and there’s a rumor of a 10.6.8 under development as we speak), you can then install Lion. That’s the price you pay for convenience, assuming downloading a 4GB file is convenient for you.” There will be no retail upgrade kits, no DVDs. The reason is that Lion will only be available via that route. “First they have to upgrade to Snow Leopard, and upgrade that initial installation to 10.6.7 (Mac App Store debuted in 10.6.6). “However, to upgrade to Lion from Leopard, it’s a double installation at best,” Steinberg writes.
Students and faculty save up to $200 on a new Mac. At the same time, I expect that the $29 upgrade price for Snow Leopard, plus loads of new Macs sold since 10.6 arrived in August of 2009, only leaves a small number of eligible Mac users still using Leopard or Tiger.”Īdvertisement: Education pricing. “A five-year Window is pretty good for Apple. Just about any Intel-based Mac released since the middle to latter part of 2006, meaning an Intel Core 2 Duo processor or better, will work with Lion,” Gene Steinberg writes for TechNightOwl. First, “a positive: Hardware support for Lion seems pretty extensive.
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