Upgrade new mac air to Lion

how do i upgrade my OS to lion? its a new mac air, purchased yday. i am told i would be able to do it from apple website, free of charge.

To see what OS your Macbook has open the Apple menu (the one shaped like an apple in the top left corner) and click on "About this Mac". The window that opens tells you what version of OS X you are running. Lion is version 10.7 (current revision is 10.7.2 but you may have a machine that has a slightly older version).
As a bonus - to update Lion to the latest revision click on Software Update. Note that it is a pretty big download and you should ensure you have a current backup before applying these types of changes to a system.
Mark

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CD or DVD Sharing with new Mac Air on LION!

I was thinking that I would be able to put in audio CD I was going to be able to watch it. If I put a cd I get the following error: The operation can't be completed because the original item for "Audio CD" can't be found.
I also trie to play a DVD. With the DVD I am able to open the DVD and look into the files but it won't play the movie.
The Apple Genius stated that this is how the CD or DVD Sharing works. It was not intended for you to you to play an audio cd from another computer or watch a DVD from another computer.
Do you guys agree with this?

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I have a new iMac running iTunes 10.4 in OS 10.6.8, and a new Mac Air running iTunes 10.4 in Lion. I was able to transfer all my music etc. from the iMac onto the Air, but cannot figure out how to get the Playlists from the iMac to the Air. iTunes Help

I have a new iMac running iTunes 10.4 in OS 10.6.8, and a new Mac Air running iTunes 10.4 in Lion. I was able to transfer all my music etc. from the iMac onto the Air, but cannot figure out how to get the Playlists from the iMac to the Air. iTunes Help says File >Library >Export playlist and choose XML, or to save a copy of all your playlists, File > Library > Export Library, "the Exported info is saved in XML format." Then it says, "to import an iTunes playlist, File > Library > Import Playlist". Now I am assuming I do that import part on the Air, but when I try it doesn't recognize anything that can be imported - what am I missing??? Aside from a clue...

Thanks, Jim, for taking the time, but the reply is unfortunately vague in the exact area of my confusion! "you need to copy that file to your new computer..." Well, the Import/Export instructions make it seem as if the two computers should be able to communicate this file thru wifi, but that's the linkage I can't seem tocreate with Import/Export. Should I instead email a copy to myself (thats what applecare suggested)? Copy it to and from a thumb drive? But then place the file where? And the article was helpful, but should I be trying to move the Library file or the Library.xml file (as iTunes Help suggests)? Sorry to be so clueless about it...I suppose I buy Apple in the hopes of not having to think about this stuff, which approach seems not to be serving me well. Thanks again for your time!

Migration From OS X Mavericks to New Mac Air that is set with 10.8.4 Mountain Lion. It is not working

Bought a new Mac Air this week. Tried to Migrate my files, etc from my old Mac Air running OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Discovered after repated attempts, that the new Mac Air has 10.8.4 Mountain Lion. Could this be why it will not work?

I would imagine so. I doubt the Migration Assistant is designed to go backwards.

Buying a new mac with mountain lion grants free upgrade on others?

I currently have three macs running lion. I am about to purchase a new mac with mountain lion. Does the purchase allow me to download the OS in app store, which in turn would allow me to upgrade my other macs to mountain lion free of charge?

Before you buy your Mac, just check to make sure it doesn't come with Mountain Lion already installed. If it comes with Lion, then you will have to download Mountain Lion from the App Store, and then you will be able to install it on all your Macs.
I believe the same applies for iLife, if it comes pre-installed on the Mac, then you probably will not be able to download it on all your other Macs.

If I order a new mac air will it have os mountain lion preinstalled

The information on the Apple site is misleading, in tech specs it says software installed is os mountain lion but when I order and put it in the basket it says the software is os x lion. I have tried to use the help chat and they cannot guarantee that os mountain lion will be pre-installed on a new mac air.

You will probably get it with ML then, they may not be shipping from existing stock, i.e., your MBA may be coming from China.

Can I use my old AIr Port Extreme with my new Mac Pro with Lion installed? It has worked well with the G-4 that I'm replacing.

Can I use my old Airport Exteme with my new Mac Pro with Lion installed? It has worked well for years with my G-4.

I'm smarter now. It worked fine.

Bought a New Macbook Air w/Lion can I install Lion on my old Machine

I just bought a new Macbook Air with Lion preinstalled on it. Is it now possible to download Lion again to my old Mac, or since I didn't purchase it from the Mac Ap store I'm out of luck. I was able to download the new versions of iPhoto, Rockband and iMovie on the old mac, but no luck so far with Lion. I guess I'm paying $30, unless somebody has a thought?

That's odd... I upgraded 4 Macs to Lion and have not had any earth shattering work stoppages. A little bug here and there but nothing that caused any mentionable issues.
It is kind of unhelpful spouting off what you have read and not experienced.
You have read about people with issues because this is a forum where people come for help. You are reading about the installs that have had issues not about the million+ that have worked.

I have upgraded my mac air to Loin and after that my machine is too slow and stucks like windows any help?

I have upgraded my mac air to loin 10.7.2 and after the upgrade it is slow any suggestions?

If you made a backup before installing lion, now would be a good time to restore that backup.... Ok, well you can always boot into lion recovery menu.... shut down your mac, hold down the option key and restart your computer..... Select recovery from the disk startup menu and go to disk utility... select the OSX disk, you can try repairing your permissions and repairing the disk.... If you lucky enough, it will fix it.... If not, and you have a decent internet connection, click the reinstall LION OSX after exiting disk utility. Your mac will now REDOWNLOAD LION OSX and reinstall it.... did you happen to make a backup before?
Also, did your mac originally have Leopard? Just curious... Because LION is entirely 64bit now where as Snow leopard had support for 32 bit as well, but the problem may be that some of your older apps where 32 bit.... This is just a guess though I'm not sure.... Because I've had numerous problems and crashes with my CS 4 stuff and final cut pro 7 and aperature.... Not sure if it's totally related to the whole 64 bit thing, but the thing is that the crashes are only occuring on my 32 bit apps.... otherwise the computer runs great.... To remedy, I had previously made an OSX lion USB drive so that I could do a fresh install of LION. I backed up all my data and files, installed a new SSD and my Macbook is SCREAAAAAAMING fast.... Sorry about the gloating but I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of your problem....

HT201343 If my Mac air is older than 2011 and not supported for Apple TV what can I do to upgrade my Mac Air ?

My Mac Air is not supported by the mirroring application to Apple TV. Is there a way to upgrade the Mac Air so it does work ?

About AirPlay and Airplay Mirroring
AirPlay Mirroring requires a second-generation Apple TV or later, and is supported on the following Mac models: iMac (Mid 2011 or newer), Mac mini (Mid 2011 or newer), MacBook Air (Mid 2011 or newer), and MacBook Pro (Early 2011 or newer). For non-qualifying Macs you can try using Air Parrot.
Several Apple Articles Regarding AirPlay
Apple TV (2nd and 3rd gen)- How to use AirPlay Mirroring
How to set up and configure AirPort Express for AirPlay and iTunes
About AirPlay Mirroring in OS X Mountain Lion
iTunes 10- About playing music with AirPlay
Troubleshooting AirPlay and AirPlay Mirroring
Using AirPlay
Thanks to the $15 Beamer, AirPlay streaming is still possible on Macs that do not support Airplay and mirroring.
Another solution is the Air Parrot.

Migrating to new macbook air with Lion, entourage 2008 doesn't work

I bought a new macbook air with lion installed. trying to migrate data from my old macbook with snow leopard. Got most data across, and installed my most frequently used applications:
- office 2008: most office apps 2008 work, if buggily. entourage not, see below.
- firefox (hangs up when downloading updates)
- dropbox (ditto)
<these two problems may have something to do with internet proxy settings, will try to sort that out later>
MAIN ISSUE:
entourage wont open at all. so for now i'm using my old comp for e-mail and the new for the rest.
MY OPTIONS:
please advise (1) what you think is the most time & nerve-saving option (2) how to do it smoothly:
A) try to get office 2008 to work.
when trying to open entourage, it tells me this version (office 2008 12.0) cannot open this entourage database (12.3)
error for other apps says there is a problem with database, and rebuilding several times did not fix it.
would have to start with updating to the version i used last (office 2008 12.3). Problem is the ms office updater does not seem to work on lion. the first update does not open, says it does not support powermac.
B) buying office 2011, and migrating entourage 2008 to outlook.
I suppose the best way to do this is to install office 2011 on the old mac first, then on the new one, then move database, right?
C) migrating from entourage 2008 to lion mail.
best way to do this would be to import entourage email to leopard mail, then move those files to the new mac? and move entourage addresses into the mac addressbook. my major concern is that i have a lot of mailing rules, and a fair bunch of notes. a lot. i;d rather not have to recreate those by hand. Is there a way to import rules from entourage to mail?
i also habe a huge backstock of mail, over 10,000, and a correspondigly huge addressbook (within entourage). i'm ready to abandon entourage at last (though i used it for a decade), but i want to have my addresses, my rules, and at least the last 3 yrs of emails. i get about 130 mails a day so i need plenty of automatic organizing capability.
i never had issues my old mac/snow leopard, i just ran out of ram and the one usb broke, so i figured it's time. kinda sorry i did not just get the usb repaired and extra ram. what a hassle these migrations always are.
cheers!
maedi

Kappy wrote:
Yes, repairing first is a sound idea. In my experience I've only moved from Entourage to the OS X applications or from one version of Entourage to another. In the latter I've been able to just copy over the Microsoft User Data folder. But I have not used Entourage for quite some time.
Microsoft don't make it quite that easy to migrate to their own applications, but the import from a 'tidy' .rge file works well, I had a lot of issues with the first few I migrated but after performing a database repair prior to import all proceeded smoothly.

I have a macbook and now I have a Macbook Air, So my question is how can I transfer all my stuff from my old mac to my new mac air?

I have a macbook and now I have a Macbook Air, So my question is how can I transfer all my stuff from my old mac to my new mac air?
Thanks

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Can`t save numbers files anymore after upgrading to mac os x lion

i am dumbstruck.
right after upgrading my snow leopard system to the new mac os x lion i am not able to save old files of Numbers any longer.
i was about to update a file and it says that the permissions wouldn`t fit.
but even when i change all the permissions to 777 to problem persists.
any clue whats going on here? apple?!
thanks for hints or help!

hey -mvimp and thanks for your reply,
meanwhile i uninstalled numbers and reinstalled it.
still had the problem with the old files, but now i could somehow make a duplicate (copy) of the file under discussion and save it back to disk. so i am at least able to continue with older files.
strange effect this lion upgrade has ...

Problems Problems after upgrading to Mac OS X Lion

I upgraded my mac os to Lion last week on my Mac air. After loading, my norton could not work probably. Then last night, files in my start up disk doubled and hence error appeared - that my disk is full while I only used 50% of the storage capacity.
This morning my iphone 4 also appeared to be have the SMS messages and photos and every files also appeared to duplicate itself.
Can anyone assist ?

After loading, my norton could not work probably.
Does Norton ever work properly?
Norton is a known troublemaker, and most likely the version you have is incompatible with Lion. You could try updating Norton, but personally, that's one I'd remove immediately and never come near again. If you feel you need AV software on your Mac, the only thing I would recommend wholeheartedly is ClamXav. Sophos' free home AV software would be my second choice, though with some reservations, as I've heard of people having problems with it.
As to the doubling files problem... can you describe more precisely what you're seeing? I've never heard of such a problem before.

My new Mac Air continues to disconnect from WiFi after going to sleep. When waking it up I have to manually re-connect. How do I keep it connected?

My new Mac Air continues to disconnect from WiFi after going to sleep. When waking it up I have to manually re-connect. How do I keep it connected?

I had this problem too and solved it by doing a clean install. After that it was gone.
This is a drastic method since it takes quite some time to reinstall lion and all your software.
Thoughts I had why it started working after a clean install are the following:
It looked like the airport wasn't able to reconnect fast enough before the connection timed out. So what could have prevented my mac from being able to connect fast enough?
Apps that consume processor cycles. I love what I would call 'System Enhancers', little apps that enhance my workflow (Moom, Alfred, Dropbox, Default Folder etc). I'm not saying that these are the problem, they might be programmed processor friendly, but check if you have apps that consume processor cylcles. It might prevent airport from being able to reconnect quickly enough before it times out.
Mobile Config profiles. Another thought I had was that I had a mobile config 802.1X profile installed for the company were I worked. It used TTLS to connect to the corporate network. This profile might have gotten in the way.
And a sidenote...
Routers with hardware acceleration might also be a problem. My router is a Wireless Gigabit Router 300N WL-351 and has hardware acceleration. As soon as I activate that my wifi connection keeps dropping. It is as if a Macbook Air can't handle that amount of optimisation.
That's it, hope it helps those who are still having the problem.
Best, Jan

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