I have a MacBook Pro 2.6GHz Quad-core Intel i7 that came with mountain lion that I can't stand.
This thing is so slow that you would think it was a 199 windoze machine. . Can I erase it and install snow leopard?
Sass
Very good. Let me explain to you how to install Snow Leopard in that refurbished MBP. It cannot be installed directly from a Snow Leopard disk.
First you will have to purchase a Snow Leopard DVD.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
You will need a HDD in an enclosure.
You will have to borrow the use of a Mac that can install Snow Leopard. Connect the external HDD to that Mac and install Snow Leopard on the external HDD with the above disk. Then update it to 10.6.8 via 'Software Update...'.
Then you connect that HDD to your refurbished HDD and clone the OS to the internal HDD (Disk Utility>Restore). You should be ready to go.
Ciao.
This is how I did it on my late 2011 MBP.
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