HT5286 I want to buy a new os x mountain lion for my mac

Im running of os x lion and no beed to reinstslling maverics which is cant boot and cant install to my mac even im using internet recovery.

Mountrain Lion: http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion
Mavericks is better and it is free, IMHO.
The tech requirements for Mountain Lion and Mavericks are the same. If you don't meet them for Mavericks, you don't meet them for Mountain Lion too.

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Do I need to buy a separate download of Mountain Lion for each Mac that I own?

Do I need to buy a separate download of Mountain Lion for each Mac that I own?

No, not if you bought it as an upgrade option.
Mountain Lion multi-computer installation license discussion - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4142823
http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/26/install-upgrade-os-x-mountain-lion-multiple-macs/

Want to buy airport extreme, am using mountain lion. Will this work ? also, my house is 5,500 square feet all on one floor. Do I need an extender and which one?

want to buy airport extreme, am using mountain lion. Will this work ? also, my house is 5,500 square feet all on one floor. Do I need an extender and which one?

... If I purchase an express to extend is it hard to configure as an extender?
No, AirPort Utility prompts you with step-by-step questions and makes configuration simple.
The Express and Extreme have the same transmitter power specifications, so I suggest the $99 Express as an extender, should you need one. Beware that you cannot add a second Express to wirelessly extend the network any further - as the following excerpt from Extending the range of your wireless network by adding additional Wi-Fi base stations explains:
Extended network range considerations
In the above example the primary Wi-Fi base station ➊ is out of wireless range of the extended Wi-Fi base station ➋, therefore the extended Wi-Fi base station cannot join or extend the wireless network. The extended Wi-Fi base station must be moved to a location that is within Wi-Fi range of the primary Wi-Fi base station.
Important Note
If another extended Wi-Fi base station ➋ is placed between the primary Wi-Fi base station ➊ and the extended Wi-Fi base station ➌, the extended Wi-Fi base station ➌ will not allow clients to join it. All extended Wi-Fi base stations must be in direct range of the primary Wi-Fi base station.
A "roaming network" that Bob described, in which all base stations are connected with an Ethernet cable, is by far the best alternative.

I have a hdd from late 2009 that I upgraded from leopard to snow leopard to lion to mountain lion. I want to upgrade the hdd to ssd. Do I need to buy a new copy of mountain lion to install on the ssd? If not, then what is the procedure to transfer?

I have a hdd from a late 2009 mbp. I upgraded from leopard to snow leopard to lion to mountain lion. Now I want to upgrade to a ssd. Do I need to purchase a new copy of mountain lion to go on my new ssd? If I don't, then what is the procedure to transfer mountain lion with my 4 user accounts onto the new ssd from the hdd?
I'm confused on if I can use the recovery hd on a thumb drive to install mountain lion on my ssd. Will it be pheasible with so many OS X upgrades? And then how do I get my user accounts onto the ssd from the hdd. Do I use migration assistant? Do I need to make a time machine backup first? Should I use something called Carbon Clone or something like that?
Thanks for reading

If you have a cable that connects and external HDD to the MBP, it will do. If it is something like this, an enclosure will not be needed for the swap:
An enclosure allows you to use your old HDD for storage or backup purposes. The cable will not.
Here are instructions as to how the swap can be performed using DISK UTITY. Substitute You cable for the enclosure in same:
INSTALLING A NEW HDD IN A MBP
1. Make certain that you have backed up all of your important data.
2. You will need a HDD enclosure. One with a USB connection will do. A 9 pin Firewire is better.
3. Install your new drive in the enclosure and connect it to your MBP.
4. Open DISK UTILITY>ERASE. From the left hand column drag the new drive into the 'Name' field. Make sure that the format is 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)'. Click on the 'Erase' button.
5. Click on the 'Restore' button (on top). Drag the old drive into the 'Source' field and the new drive into the 'Destination' field. Click on the 'Restore' button on the bottom right hand corner.
Depending upon the amount of data you are transferring, this may take a couple hours or more. A Firewire will speed up the transfer. This will result in both drives having identical information on them.
6. After the data transfer has completed, you may swap the drives. Start the MBP and you have finished the installation. The initial boot may take a bit longer than you are accustomed to, but that is normal.
7. When you are satisfied that the new hard drive if functioning properly, you can erase the old drive and use it for any needs that you may have.
If there is any confusion on your part, post back.
Ciao.

I'm running Yosemite on my present computer, if I buy a new computer with Mountain Lion, can I transfer apps and info?

I'm using Yosemite now, new computer comes with Mountain Lion, can I transfer apps and info?

You can, but there is a high risk of leaving OS X in your new Mac unusable. This is because Migration Assistant will detect that your new Mac has got preinstalled apps with an older version than the ones you have in the "old" Mac, and it will try to replace them. However, the new apps versions are designed for Yosemite, so you will not be able to open any application.
Because of that, I recommend you to set up the new Mac without transferring your data, and upgrade it to Yosemite. Then, use Migration Assistant to transfer your files.

I don't want to buy a new one just yet hoping for some magic

Hi folks my 4 year old imac 20" I believe died on me. I can't believe it. I read everything there is to read, bad caps, bad PSU caps, apple warranty extension. Mine falls within that serial# but apple folks said no it's 4 years. $1799 for 4 years of service just not right. I'm using a 8 years old Win laptop to type this. All was going well till from sleep the imac sounded it was ready for takeoff. I did a hard shut down. (it would not wake) I tried everything but she won't boot. Actually it has booted on occasion but after a while would hard freeze. Followed by hard shutdown, then not booting. During the no boot fans will blast after some 30 second or so. So I take the cover off to start troubleshooting. Apple says its logic board problem. There is no way I'm paying $900 for a new board. I see nothing in the caps that would indicate to replace them. PSU is also fine based on the LED code. LED1 and LED2 light up, so that indicates PSU is working correctly. Its LED3 that will not turn on. I took out the inverter to inspect and again it looks brand new. No smells, burnt sightings, kinked wires....nothing. When it booted I did all the reset key stuff, didn't help. One note before it booted it beeped once. After that beep, I know it will boot. I'm not sure what that beep means. I can't get it to beep again. No chime or bong. However the power light will stay on sometimes or not turn on at all while not booting. I disconnected the ambient sensor, hoping that would do it, and no. Other things I've done is upgrade the HD and memory a while back. I don't believe its an issue cause these were working for a few months before hand, and I put back the original working 512K dimm to test, and all is same.
Here are my questions.
1. What else can i check?
2. How to test the inverter to make sure it works correctly? I'm hoping its that.
3. Can the power light have anything to do with it sensor there maybe?? I know I'm reaching here..
I'm just hoping someone can give me other clues. Like I said 4 years for $1800 is not right. One disturbing thing is apple thinks I got more years then I should have with it. Sorry, I like apple but totally disagree on that. If someone had told me that when I bought it, I would ran the other way real fast.

carl s. wrote:
I read everything there is to read, bad caps, bad PSU caps, apple warranty extension. Mine falls within that serial# but apple folks said no it's 4 years.
Are you sure about the serial number & warranty extension? To my knowledge, it was only first generation iMac G5's involved in the 'bad cap' warranty extension & yours sounds like a 2nd generation one (the Ambient Light Sensor version).
As it happens, I have been having similar problems with my iMac G5 ALS model, also about 4 years old. (Note: you may want to skim the next several paragraphs, which describe it in detail, & focus on the conclusion at the end.)
First, for several months it would sometimes not wake from sleep from the keyboard. When this happened, plugging & unplugging the keyboard USB connector would sometimes wake it, then the problem progressed & that wouldn't work but unplugging or plugging in an iPod Shuffle would wake it. Then it got to the point that it would go into a weird 'half-sleep' mode -- everything seemed to be sleeping & the screen was dark but I could hear the fans & hard drive running & the power light was not pulsing but off. At that point not even holding down the power button would do anything but pulling the power cord & plugging it back in would shut the computer down, after which it would start & run normally.
This went on for about 2 weeks, then the display started having persistent artifacts consistent with bad video RAM -- the pointer was surrounded by a hatched pattern, windows by multiple horizontal lines, & Dock & menu bar were overlaid with a grey window-screen-like pattern. Booting into Target Disk Mode or the Apple Hardware Test resulted in vertical broken lines throughout the screen & sure enough, AHT said everything was OK except video RAM -- I couldn't read the result code because of the vertical lines.
This iMac was just being used at the time by my wife for email & she gamely said she could live with the display artifacts, since email windows were displayed cleanly, so for about 10 days that's what we did, pulling the power cord as needed to get the Mac out of its weird 'half-sleep' mode when that occurred. I had & periodically continued to try resetting the SMU & PRAM, emptying caches, etc., & running Disk Utility's Verify Disk check, all to no effect.
Then 2 days ago, I noticed the weirdest behavior yet: the iMac appeared to be sleeping (power light pulsing) but an attached iPod Shuffle's light was flashing orange, indicating it was mounted & should not be disconnected. On closer examination, I noticed that the fans were not running but the back of the case was very, very hot. I pulled the power plug & opened the case to discover that the CPU shroud was too hot to touch! Trying the internal power switch diagnostic immediately lit LED 4, the over-temperature indicator so I left the Mac on its face with the cover off to cool down.
To my relief, 20 minutes later hitting the internal power switch resulted in a normal startup chime & LED's 1 through 3 lighting up in the normal way. I closed it up & tried the normal startup but it hung at the grey screen with the spinner. Since this iMac had two partitions, one for Leopard as the default & one for Tiger, I restarted & with the option key selected the Tiger partition.
Amazingly, not only did it start up perfectly into Tiger but there was no trace of video artifacts. I discovered that the Leopard partition now had an unrepairable 'bad thread count' error, even though all previous checks with Disk Utility had shown no problems. I restored the Leopard partition from a Time Machine backup, restarted into it & since then everything has worked perfectly, even to the point that AHT can now find no video RAM or any other problems.
Conclusion: I have no idea what happened or why everything is working perfectly now. It seems impossible that any software change could fix a hardware problem. The persistent video RAM issue occurred even when booting from the AHT & installer discs, which should rule out any problem with the version of the OS installed on the hard drive. I have no faith that this iMac won't start displaying power/sleep/video issues again, but try as I might I can no longer find any sign of any problems.
My half-baked hypothesis for now is that the severe over temperature condition somehow cooked out whatever hardware problem caused it, & in so doing "cured" the other problems, too. This makes almost no sense, except for one thing: I noticed two slightly bulging capacitors on the motherboard that I don't think were there some months back when I last opened the case. A partial failure mode for a "popped" electrolytic capacitor is that this lets moisture into it, partially shorting it out. It is remotely possible that the moisture was cooked out of these two caps & that is why it is working OK now ... maybe.
Anyway, because of this, I suggest that you look very carefully at all the black electrolytic capacitors on your motherboard, checking for even the slightest sign of bulging or separation of the three sections of their metal tops along the Y-shaped score lines. Even if your # 1 & 2 LED's are lighting up, you may have a power related problem caused by these capacitors being bad. If so, it may be that a technician can replace them & get your iMac working again without an expensive logic board replacement.

I want to run the new os x mountain lion but currently on 10.5.8 what do i need to do

Hi folks
I am running 10.5.8 how do i upgrade to mountain lion

Depends if your Mac is capable of running it.
http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/
(Note that the specs say 2GB of RAM but I wouldn't consider it with less than 4 GB.)
If so, then you need to purchase 10.6.8 and purchase and download ML

I want to buy a new apple tv but it used hdmi cables and my house is only wired for analog. Is there any way I can use the apple tv on analog cables?

I want to buy a new apple tv but it used hdmi cables and my house is only wired for analog. Is there any way I can use the apple tv on analog cables?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
It's do-able, but I don't think it's a great idea.
DVI
Some users with DVI have managed to get their TV's to work with DVI-HDMI cables. DVI carries no audio, so alternative connections need to be explored to enable audio. DVI doesn't necessarily support HDCP as well as other standards used by HDMI (which may or may not be an issue)
Analogue
There are hardware converters that will convert HDMI to various other types of output, however there are some issues with doing so that you should be aware of.
HDCP
HDCP compliant converters will not allow you to watch HDCP protected content such as that from the iTunes Store. Non compliant converters exist but we cannot discuss them under the Terms of Use for these communities.
Resolution and aspect ratio
I'm not aware of any converters that will scale the output from the Apple TV, any TV or projector which is used will need to be widescreen and support resolutions of 720p (Apple TV 2), 720p/1080p (Apple TV 3)
DAC
DAC (Example Only - Not a recommendation or suggestion that this is suitable in your circumstances)

My laptop is broken and I don't want to buy a new one. Is there any way to recover my music from itunes via my ipad?

My laptop is broken and I don't want to buy a new one. Is there any way to retrieve all of my music on itunes via my ipad and can I manage my itunes account only on my ipad?

Ladymac33 wrote:
My laptop is broken and I don't want to buy a new one.
Okay, that's your choice.
Ladymac33 wrote:
Is there any way to retrieve all of my music on itunes via my ipad and can I manage my itunes account only on my ipad?
Is the media already on the iPad? If not, iTunes purchases can be redownloaded if they are still available in iTunes. Non-iTunes purchases would need to be synced from iTunes on a computer.

Is there a way to print from ipad 4 to a non AirPrint printer? I have a Canon Pixma MP 620 wifi which works fine with my PC but I don't want to buy a new printer. Is there an app for this or adaptors which could work? thank, Ric

Is there a way to print from ipad 4 to a non AirPrint printer?
I have a Canon Pixma MP 620 wifi which works fine with my PC but I don't want to buy a new printer.
Is there an app for this or adaptors which could work?
Thank, Ric

Printopia is another option but be aware that since these solutions effectively act as a print server and AirPrint receiver, they require a computer to be running on the same WiFi network.
Canon also has a couple of apps in the App Store that might facilitate this on non-AirPrint printers. Check out...
Canon Easy-PhotoPrint
Canon Mobile Printing
PIXMA Printing Solutions

HT1848 Forgive such a basic question, it's easier than looking it up. I have my iTunes music on macbook pro and have only synced it to one iPod. I want to buy a new iPod and want to know will I be able to sync my music from computer to new iPod at no ch

Forgive such a basic question, it's easier than looking it up. I have my iTunes music on macbook pro and have only synced it to one iPod. I want to buy a new iPod and want to know will I be able to sync my music from computer to new iPod at no charge?

will I be able to sync my music from computer to new iPod at no charge?
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I want to buy a new external hard drive.

I want to buy a new external hard drive, I have an iMac now, I most likely will buy a mac pro this winter. I want to buy a hard drive that will be able to handle the highest quality video, AND work with my iMac now. Thanks
Andrew

And finally:
Make SURE you format the drive as Mac OS Extended, journalling optional but recommended.
Disk Utility Help: Erasing a disk or volume
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1009.html
In step 4, DO choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
WARNING: All your currect files will be erased.

I currently run the Design and Web Premium CS6 on a first generation MacBook Air and want to buy a new MacBook Pro. How do I know whether I can install my Adobe programs onto the new computer? Because I know there is some kind of limit.

I currently run the Design and Web Premium CS6 on a first generation MacBook Air and want to buy a new MacBook Pro. How do I know whether I can install my Adobe programs onto the new computer? Because I know there is some kind of limit.
Also, I had to install the software twice on my same computer before because I had to reboot the computer. I don't know if this affects the limit.

You are allowed to have two activated installations so there should not be a problem having working installations on the two machines. If by chance you have somehow tied up two activations for the one machine you can have Adobe support help resolve that thru chat.
Serial number and activation chat support (non-CC)
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/service1.html ( http://adobe.ly/1aYjbSC )

I'm entitled to an upgrade as I have CS3 I want to buy a new mac and install the upgrade on the new computer. How do I do this?

I'm entitled to an upgrade as I have CS3 I want to buy a new mac and install the upgrade on the new computer. How do I do this?

Hi Ned,
Thank you for your help. I want to join creative cloud and when it check my system I told i can join for the discount price.
One Year, Paid Monthly plan — €36.89 per month, inclusive of VAT
My mac is Version 10.6.8 so I need to purchase two new mac creative cloud to run properly. I want to install the aps on both macs one for work and one for home use.
Will this work or cause me any problem?
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