Upgraded my macbook pro to mountain lion from snow leopard does this mean i can upgrade my imac as well for the same price? And will it mess it up?

upgraded my macbook pro to mountain lion from snow leopard does this mean i can upgrade my imac as well for the same price? And will it mess it up?

You can upgrade the iMac for no extra charge - sign into the App Store there, download and install 10.8.
I recommend that you make a backup (Time Machine is probably the easiest method) before you install, and make sure that you are not using any applications that are incomptible with 10.8 (eg Office 2004) - other than that, it should go smoothly.
Matt

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    I am a macbook pro user form last 2 yrs, recently i upgraded to Mountain Lion from Snow leopard. Since then  operational  speed is a major concern. Now It has crashed so very badly that I am scared of my data.Please help me.

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    bkchoo wrote:
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  • Time Machine after upgrade to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard

    Hi,
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    Thank you, so that will retain my existing snow leopard backups and just start making new mountain lion backups? (There is more than 1TB of available space on the drive still)

  • What happens when I upgrade to mountain lion from snow leopard?

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    What happens to the partitions? do they stay the same or does the upgrade pretty much do a factory restore and make me start from square one again?
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    I do not have any knowledge about boorcamp but on my old MacBook with snowleapard,
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    And about tha bootcamp partition:
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    I upgraded to mountain lion from snow leopard, but now some of my applications do not work, most specifically I would like to use my photo studio, but now it tells me that powerpc is no longer supported.  Does anyone have any fixes to this problem? I would really like to continue to use software that I already have! Thank you for your help!

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  • Why I cannot assess deleted Apple mail messages in time machine after installing mountain lion from snow leopard.

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  • I can't upgrade my Macbook Pro to Mountain Lion and then Maverics

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  • I just upgraded to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard, but it's stuck at the reboot screen. What can I do?

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  • How to upgrade to mountain lion from snow leopard(10.6.8)

    According to the requirments for Mountain Lion i am able to download but when i try to download from app store i get this message
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      Model Identifier:    MacBook3,1
      Processor Name:    Intel Core 2 Duo
      Processor Speed:    2.2 GHz
      Number Of Processors:    1
      Total Number Of Cores:    2
      L2 Cache:    4 MB
      Memory:    2 GB
      Bus Speed:    800 MHz
      Boot ROM Version:    MB31.008E.B01
      SMC Version (system):    1.24f2
      Serial Number (system):    WQ******Z63
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    <Edited by Host>

    Your MacBook isn't compatible with Mountain Lion.
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