How long does it take to install mountain lion

how long does it take to install mountain lion

It depends on a number of factors - the speed of your computer and hard drive mostly. My experience has been that a standard upgrade will take 30-45 minutes. If you are erasing the hard drive and installing, it takes about 20-30 minutes, not counting migrating your data and applications.
This doesn't count downloading which can take as litting as 40 minutes (a very fast broadband connection during off hours) to as much as several hours.

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    It all depends on your download speed. Patience is a virtue.
    Leave your computer running.  Verify throught the app store the download is in progress or restart the download.

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    how long does it take to download mountain lion, with 2012 macbook?

    Depends on
    Server load
    Speed of your Internet connection
    Your ISPs contention rate
    Which interface you use
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    Regards
    TD

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    How long does it take to download Mountain Lion

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