As soon as Lion is released, will new Macs ship with it?

I'm planning to get a new Mac for college this fall. I wanted to wait until Lion is released to get it. I just wanted to be sure that as soon as Lion is released that the Macs will ship with it preinstalled. Does anyone have any information on this or know the answer?

Apple's press release on Monday or Tuesday at the WWDC said this:
"The Mac OS X Lion Up-To-Date upgrade is available at no additional charge via the Mac App Store to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller on or after June 6, 2011. Users must request their Up-To-Date upgrade within 30 days of purchase of their Mac computer. Customers who purchase a qualifying Mac between June 6, 2011 and the date when Lion is available in the Mac App Store will have 30 days from Lion s official release date to make a request."
It's likely that all Macs shipped from the factory on or after the official release date of Lion will have it preinstalled. But there will probably be a limited amount of store stock for a while after that date that was shipped to stores earlier and will come with Snow Leopard installed. Buyers of those machines who request Lion within 30 days of their purchases should get it for free according to the above, though we don't know yet exactly what the mechanics will be.

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Does "Included Software" not mean "this is the software you will receive when you buy this Mac"?

Ahh OK.
Since Mountain Lion is so new, there may be a some units still in the supply chain that are still shipping with Lion.
Are you near an Apple Store? If you purchase there you'll be more certain about what you're getting.
Or if you order from the online store but do it by telephone (800-692-7753) you can express your concern about getting Mountain Lion.
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If I order a new iMac today through the Apple store will it come with OSX 10.5 or 10.6 installed?
The Apple store says the iMac will ship with OSX 10.5 but they show a picture of the OSX 10.6 box set...
(I'd like to still get one with Leopard if I can)

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
PPP connections generally are done by dialup modem. Macs presently do not have built-in modems, though a USB modem is available to them from Apple, and some other vendors which do work with Mac OS X 10.6.
Any Mac though that can run Mac OS X 10.6, can also run any version of Windows. See the virtualization options here*:
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html#WINTEL
Boot Camp is included with 10.6.
By the way, MAC is an acronym for Media Access Control, a network naming convention. Mac is shorthand for Macintosh, the operating system and the machines made by Apple computer that run the operating system in question.
If you have further questions about Boot Camp or other virtualization see the Boot Camp category, and pick up of the forums inside of it at its header to be able to post your own topic:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=237
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

A new Mac shipping with OS X Lion will not accept OS X Snow Leopard

Hi Fans,
I''m back again to report on my 2.5hr campaign to get Snow Leopard back.
I have of course no DVD drive on the Macbook Air.
So, I created a restore disk from my Mini, to an external drive.
Loooks good...
Boot Air, kernel panic. The Snow Leopard DVD is too old.
Error is:
You can't use this version of the application Install Mac OS X.app with this version of Mac OS X.
You have Install Mac OS X.app 23.1.
So, I will call apple apparently tomorrow and ask if there is a possibility for a later version DVD or a USB I can get.
I might add that if you have problems, apple prefer that you email them here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback
Other than that, a little rant here could help...
The experience I've had is pratically software entrapment, Apple just about closed the doors on software choice.

Thanks, yes I see the point, I will eventually get some 'feedback' and hope that I can survive the shortcomings...
I wonder if anyone knows if it is possible at all? To run Snow Leopard on the New Macbook Airs, i7 etc.
If it is... I will call and wait to talk to an Apple Expert...
What's interesting is Progress has become a relative concept, whereas before, Progress really mean't progress.
I think we got all excited over a rather fluffy domestic cat...
OS X Mr Snuggles?
Actually, the next version was probably the Sabre Tooth, but as we know, that cat is extinct.
I am trying to keep up good spirits by lightening up this 50/50 release.

New Mac Pro with Lion and can't install FCP.

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How to run FCP 6 (FCS 2) under Lion.
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First you need to install Rosetta from your Snow Leopard OS installation disc:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/27987.html
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If your trying to install FCP version 5.1 (FCS 1) (a PPC app) and below your out of luck....
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https://discussions.apple.com/community/professional_applications/final_cut_stud io?view=discussions
R

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Unpacked it today and booted it up from the recovery partition and launched raid utitlity, as usual its 3 seperate drives (no raid).
So I deleted the second and third volumes leaving only the preinstalled lion server and recovery hd on the first volume.
Called Enterprise Support and got a few knowledge base articles about installing. One of them being about "internet install" which states if you replace the drive with recovery hd on it you can still boot your machine via internet by holding down Cmd+R.
Doing so leaves me with a Folder and a question mark, so it can't find anywhere to boot from.
Doing the same thing with any new mac delivered with normal lion on it will succeed in booting on the same network from apples internet install.
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No USB drive with Lion server delivered. It's not needed, of course not...
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Mylenium

I recently purchased new Mac Mini with Lion installed. Now I can't get iTunes to sync iCal from my iPod Touch (3rd gen) to my Mini.

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Ongoing thread with the same question https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3209335?tstart=0
Stefan

If mountain lion is released before my laptop ships...

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A second option would be to use a cloning software like SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your existing Macintosh HD to an external USB drive. This would give you an external bootable copy of what you have now.

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Hello All,
I have an old iMac (G4) and I am considering to buy a new Intel iMac, I am just waiting to get with it the new OS X (Leopard). Has anybody any idea when the new iMac's will start to ship with the new Mac OS? Thanks.
Carmine

Hi Carmine, Welcome to Apple's Users Help Users Forums.
On her behalf, thank your for your kind words. I include it again so other readers won't have to run it down.
*Francine Schweider* a |||| bar poster in these forums has what I think is an excellent thought.
"I plan to buy my next computer before Leopard comes out. Why? Because generally new Mac computers will not run any system older than the one they ship with, I want to be able to use the fully mature Tiger system, rather than having to rely entirely on Leopard. Who knows whether the software I own will be fully compatible with Leopard? Or how long it will take for developers (think Adobe) to update if there are incompatibilities with Leopard. Or even just how stable and reliable and all like that Leopard will be.
Francine"
Enjoy your new iMac, JP

As soon as Lion is released, will new Macs ship with it?

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