I downloaded mountain lion on my laptop.  Do I need to do the same on my Desktop and iPad or is the one download good for all 3, and how do I do that if it is?

I downloaded mountain lion on my laptop.  Do I need to do the same on my Desktop and iPad or is the one download good for all 3, and how do I do that if it is?

If your desktop computer is one that supports Mountain Lion, you can either download it there or make a bootable jump drive with the installer on it -- assuming you haven't yet used the installer you downloaded to your laptop.
As for the iPad, it doesn't use the same OS as the Macs do; it uses iOS versions, so Mountain Lion won't work there.

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  • HT1338 Will MacBook white users be able to download OSX Mountain Lion on their laptops?

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    http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/
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  • Un-split the hard drive and re-download Mountain Lion on my second laptop

    I have two partitions on the hard drive of my MacBook Air; one has Snow Leopard (Mac OS X, 10.6.8) and the other has Mountain Lion (Mac OS X, 10.8.3).  As I start saving more files on my MBA, I start having less free space to work with.  When I purchased the Mountain Lion, I didn't purchase the CD version; I downloaded from Apple's site.  Now I need to un-split my MacBook Air, keeping the Snow Leopard on it and move the Mountain Lion to my MacBook Pro.  How do I do that?  Any suggestions?  Thanks!

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    http://lifehacker.com/5928780/how-to-burn-os-x-mountain-lion-to-a-dvd-or-usb-fla sh-drive
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  • I was downloading Mountain Lion to My Mac Laptop, but then it stopped downloading and now it says there is an error! What should I do??

    So, I was downloading Mountian Lion to my mac.... It was taking a while but I thought possibly that was normal. When I checked back, Mountain Lion was gone, not even downloading anymore and I thought to myself, It couldn't be downloaded already. So I went to the app store and it now says an error has occured... I have no idea what to do now...... Can someone help please?

    Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
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  • How do you erase and reinstall a hard drive without a disc? I bought this mac book pro under a year ago and am pretty sure i downloaded mountain lion from the app store. Basically Im having startup issues and this is the final step Ive reached

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  • I just downloaded Mountain lion and its deleted EVERYTHING! How can i get it back??

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  • Cannot download Mountain Lion- "an error has occurred"

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  • I downloaded mountain lion and then the new office suite (word, ppt, excel) but now when I try to display one of my ppt's it says 'ppt cannot open the file...the file may be corrupt, in use, not a type recognized by ppt etc.." how can I fix it?? HELP

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  • Why won't the App Store let me download Mountain Lion even though my system meets the requirements?

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    Discontinued
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    You computer is probably perfectly repairable, but if you want a new one anyway, it is perfectly possible to transfer the data from the faulty one.
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    Message was edited by: Mike Boreham...added sec on line

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