I want to upgrade to the new lion but I don't know how because Im scared I'll lose all my data.

I want to get the newest version of lion, and I know i can get it from the app store however im scared of losing all of my pictures and data etc, and also ive heard stories where peoples laptops got slower after wards. What should I do?

WZZZ wrote:
You should know you will lose all your PPC apps,
Clarification. You won't be able to run them, but they'll still be on the machine.
I strongly recommend bootable clones. See these for details.
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/installswupdates.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/backuprecovery.html

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