Why don't Macbook pros at best buy come preloaded with Lion OS X?

Why don't Macbook pros at best buy come preloaded with Lion OS X? Will they in the future?

-sneak- -sneak- -sneak- LION!
-sneak sneak sneak- Here you go, Sir!
"Uh, what did you do?"
... nothing! Enjoy!
(-giggle-)
... actually it's a free upgrade offered through Apple
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Why is my MacBook Pro running so slow after installing Mountain Lion 10.8. I have restarted, created more free space on my hard drive and run disk utilities. Simple operations result 20 seconds or more of the spinning wheel. Some are so slow that the operation does not happen at all. Itunes music cuts out during operations.

Check out this article by Thomas Reed for help http://www.reedcorner.net/understanding-upgrade-nightmares/. Also, make sure all apps are compatible with Mountain Lion using www.roaringapps.com. Do you have any antivirus installed? Make sure all apps are updated as well.

Why don't I have airdrop on my McBook Air with Lion 10.7.5?

Why don't I have airdrop on my McBook Air with Lion 10.7.5?

Hello Ann,
What other computer are you trying to share with? If you are trying to do this with your iOS device, then you will need to have OS X Yosemite installed. Take a look at the articles below for more information and if you need more assistance, let me know.
Using AirDrop with OS X Lion, Mountain Lion or Mavericks
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202267
Mac Basics: AirDrop lets you send files from your Mac to nearby Macs and iOS devices
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203106
Regards,
-Norm G.

I bought a macbook pro at best buy, if i dont like it can i exchange it for the air?

Even after using it for 3 weeks?

You can return an Apple product within 14 days from the date of purchase.
That's Apple's policy, though, not Best Buy's policy. I don't know whose policy would apply, but AnaMusic is absolutely correct... Best Buy would be the place to get your answers. Personally, I think there's no way you're going to be able to return a machine you've been using for 3 weeks. You may have better luck selling it on eBay and accepting that you will not recoup the full purchase price.

Why does my MacBook Pro still have disk problems even with replacement disks?

I have a 2008-era MacBook Pro. In January it failed to boot. I took it to Apple and paid for a replacement system board. When it came back they told me the hard drive was also bad and they had replaced it.
About a month later my performance became very bad. A test of the hard disk revealed unrecoverable errors. I reformatted the disk and restored from Time Machine. About a month later, the same problem surfaced. This time I took it back to Apple and they put in a replacement hard drive.
Now here I am about a month after that and the hard drive has asked to be reformatted twice again.
What is REALLY wrong and how do I get it fixed?

How does the disk test which checks the drive have to do with corrupted data?
Let me clarify:
1. System gets slow.
2. I run the Disk Utility > Verify disk.
3. It reports data corruption errors and and says to run Disk Utility > Repair Disk
4. I run Disk Utility > Repair Disk
5. It says errors are such I need to run it from the Utilty partition
6. I restart from the Utility partition and run Repair Disk
7. It reports it can't fix the problem. Tells me to erase the disk and restore.
8. I do all that.
9. Now I run Verify Disk again. All is well, and all continues to be ok for several weeks.
So, if the Time Machine backup was corrupt, step 9 above would fail.
Since this is the third hard disk since January, I doubt that the problem is REALLY the disk.

Can I install Snow Leopard on the latest Macbook Pros? (the ones pre-loaded with Lion)

The problem and solution is pretty simple, I just want to know if anyone has tried this before. I have a brand new Macbook Pro that I bought more or less for the sole purpose of having a more powerful machine to run AVID Media Composer on. AVID is only compatible up to OS version 10.6.7 at the moment, and the machine I got was pre-loaded with Lion, 10.7....So I look at the support documentation Apple provides, and notice that in the nifty little chart they have, the latest line of Macbook Pros out there (early 2011) originally had version 10.6.6, so I'm assuming that's the previous version I can't downgrade past.
To revert back to Snow Leopard, however, I need to install it from the DVD which has version 10.6.3 on it, and then upgrade to any version between Snow Leopard 10.6.6 and Lion 10.7. In theory this could work, the only problem being that for a brief time between installing Snow Leopard and updating to the version of it that I need, the computer will have version 10.6.3 on it.
Now I'm pretty sure if the only thing I do on the computer is immediately update to a safe-to-use version, there will be no problems. However, if the machine's hardware is so terribly non-backwards compatible with the Snow Leopard OS, I may do all this backing up and reverting and not even be able to start the computer once I get the old install on it. Before I just go ahead and try this for myself, I was wondering if anyone else has, and more importantly, have you had any success?

Hi r,
EDIT: disregard my post. Waiting for that disc is a far better option.
I hope w won't mind if I add a thought here:
rmo348 wrote:
Now I don't mind if some drivers are messed up and resolution is all funky when I install 10.6.3 on it, I just need to know if it'll be functional to the point where I can run the 10.6.6 update dmg. Once I update to 10.6.6 everything should work fine.
Or could I install 10.6.3, have the 10.6.6 update burned to a disc, and boot straight from that? This is my first Mac so I'm not sure what little tricks work or not.
Your first idea may work; the only way to know for sure is to try it. If you do, make sure you download and run the Combo update for 10.6.7 or 10.6.8. There can be different versions of a point update, those which are available for download, and those which ship on Macs, so you want to install one beyond that which shipped with some of the new MBPs.
If the MBP won't boot to 10.6.3, something else to try is installing it to an external HD, then installing the 10.6.7 update on it, clone it to the MPB's internal HD, and run the 10.6.7 or 10.6.8 Combo update on it.

My Macbook Pro doesn't seem to 'roar' with Lion

Hi.
So, I have a Macbook Pro (mid 2009) which came med Snow Leopard. A couple of weeks ago I updated to Lion because I noticed that still more software requested OS 10.7 (Lion). I did everything the way Apple Support Documents told me to and the installment went smooth.
However,
Besides my Mac is a little slower (I guess due to the new graphic effects in the OS), Safari webbrowser runs REALLY SLOW!
Like, my Mac gets USELESS as soon as I open 3-4 tabs because content load really slow.
I've also noticed that my Mac gets really (really!!) warm whenever I run too much content with Flash.
Can anyone please help me out here ? I've already done the whole 'disk-utility'-thing. Do I need to do a clean install of Lion, or would it be better if I just went back to Snow Leopard ?

First of all do not turn Off Akamai.
Kill the flash webkit process in Activity Monitor by choosing the red Quit icon, then force quit.
Update Safari via Software Update from the Apple menu in the top right of your screen.
Restart your computer.
Ensure the java runtime environment is installed, check compatibility with your Adobe and Flash products and known issues with Lion by following this link:
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/known-issues-mac-os-10.html

Macbook pro retina hdmi external comes out with a green tint?

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Why does my macbook pro 2012 try to start up with an apple logo and loading bar and then turn off?

I have tried to turn my macbook on and all i am getting when i push the power button is an apple logo and a loading bar which when it loads macbook turns off. I need this to do ubiversity work. Helplo!! It wont even let me atart it in safe mode.

Try resetting the SMC and PRAM
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
About NVRAM and PRAM
Boot to Recovery and try repairing the startup disk
OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support
Reinstall OS
OS X Yosemite: Reinstall OS X

I just purchased a MacBook Pro from my college, it shipped with Lion; is there anyway I can update the software to Moutain Lion without having to pay $20 since it is brand new?

It is "last years model" and it came shipped with Mac OS X 10.7.5. I was just wondering if I could update for free since it is brand new mac?

Supposedly if you purchase 10.8 and check out, if the machine is one on the list the account is not charged.
I can't confirm this, but that's what one person reported back as what occured.

Does anyone maybe know why the new Macbook pros don't have iWeb and how i can install it. My Macbook already came with the iLife thing, but it seems to only have iMovie, iPhoto and Garage Band. is there any way that i can install iWeb?

Does anyone maybe know why the new Macbook pros don't have iWeb and how i can install it. My Macbook already came with the iLife thing, but it seems to only have iMovie, iPhoto and Garage Band. is there any way that i can install iWeb?

Apple discontinued iWeb. That's the case for over a year now.
Topics in this forum will tell you that in order to install iWeb you have to find a copy at eBay, Amazon and similar places.
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Which Macbook Pro should i buy, 13" or 15" SSD or HDD or flash drive?

I'm a Graphic Designer, and looking to buy a new Mac. Believe it or not, i've been using a Powerbook G4 for more than 10 years, the best of its kind, until recently the Hard drive died and the OS on the computer can't be upgraded any more. I can still use Adobe CS3 on it. Its an awesome device but hard to part with. The exterior is in great shape, looks almost new.
I've heard a lot of negatives on the newer Mac Book Pros, it's battery life, etc. Are there any Graphic Designers that can help with reviews and experiences using the new ones. I don't care so much for the Retina display, recently Apple made it available for most all except one option and the price jump stinks.
I'm actually considering the 13" macbook pro w/o Retina that way i can upgrade the RAM and HD. I will be using Adobe CC on the macbook pro once i buy it.
Can anyone suggest a better configuration, is 13" sufficient?, which should i choose SSD or Flash drive. I would like to keep the budget somewhere between $1500-$1750. Also do people recommend taking Apple care?
Thanks any advise is much appreciated.
CR

You will love the new mac's. An SSD is 2-3x faster than an HDD when it comes to startup and loading apps. SSD and flash drive is the same thing, flash drive is just a faster SSD.
I would say you could go with the non-retina mac's but you are doing graphic design after all, and a retina display has much better graphics. The retina display also weighs a whole pound lighter which is a very noticable difference.
The battery life is very good. The 13" processor should be powerful enough for everything you need. The 15" will be at least $2,000 which would not fit your budget.
I would go for the mid model 13" with 8GB ram and 256GB space. It will be around $1,399 + tax with the education discount. You will be fine with 8GB ram as the new OS is very efficient when it comes to memory management.
http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro

Why does my MacBook Pro and Mac Pro keep freezing?

Why does my MacBook Pro freeze?
MacBook Pro
2.4 GHz intel Core2 Duo
4BB 1067 MHz DDR3
OSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard
I turned it on and I went to safari to look things up. Safari froze and then the whole thing became unresponsive - the mouse could move the cursor but it couldn't open any programmes.
Tried safe boot several times. No help.
Tried to repair disc permissions. The first time it got a little way then said 'user stopped repair' or something - though I didn't touch it. Tried again it got all the way through and said 'repairs complete'. But no help.
Couldn't clear cache etc as couldn't get to the relevant part to do it.
Opened in single user mode. Ran the fsck -fy thing twice. First time it said both “The volume appears to be OK” AND “FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED.” In 2nd run it just said “The volume appears to be OK”. No help.
Booted it up from the Superduper bootable backup version on a USB external drive. It seemed to boot up ok but then tried to click on something and the same thing happened - spinning beach ball and it just hung.
Erased hard drive and reinstalled snow leopard but it just does the same thing. Suggesting a hardware issue not software but...the Eerie thing is, we tried backup version on boyfriends Mac Pro and it worked fine on there but 24hrs later his Mac Pro has got exactly the same screen freezing, unresponsive issue. Could this suggest there's something evil lurking on my back up? Can't get an appointment at Genius Bar until next week and need to get some work done, so hoping someone might have some ideas?
Cheers
Kerry

KaiDonald wrote:
... does Apple products work much better with using Apple routers?
While a genuine Apple router is likely to result in success, the reason for having one instead of another product is that it eliminates a lot of uncertainty. For example, we do not know the model D-Link product you have so no one is in position to speculate what the problem might be. Also, it makes support on this forum easier since there are only three AirPort models to choose from and they all work more or less the same.
Generally speaking your iPods, iPads, MacBooks, and AppleTV ought to work with any router though, provided it is fairly recent and meets accepted industry standards. If in doubt you can purchase an AirPort Base Station, which comes with 90 days of free telephone support. If it does not result in any improvement for you, you can always return it for a complete refund. The return period is 14 days and be sure to keep all material - receipt, box, manuals, etc...
If you elect this option be sure to follow its installation instructions, the most important of which is to power down your modem prior to connecting the AirPort Extreme, Express, or Time Capsule. All your other equipment will need their network settings adjusted to "forget" the D-Link network and connect to the new one.

Can somebody please advise urgently... I backed up my entire hard-drive of my macbook pro - just prior to installing osx mountain lion. I put everything into a folder on my desktop - then backed it up onto an external drive. Once this was done - i deleted

Can somebody please advise urgently...
I backed up my entire hard-drive of my macbook pro - just prior to installing osx mountain lion.
I put everything into a folder on my desktop - then backed it up onto an external drive. Once this was done - i deleted the folder off my desktop - and following this - things started to go all weird...pages hanging, the coloured 'wheel of death' appeared for ages. So i had to employ a 'hard-boot' restart - as i had not other options.
I'm pretty sure i made copies of of files/apps/folders etc - however not so sure now as i cant even start up my laptop!!!
Can somebosy please help me urgently??!!!

Got the exact same problem, and I also did this operation many times before, from 500Gb to 750Gb, and then from 750Gb to 1 Gb. Not My HD got a little such complaining about bad sectors when in windows bootcamp, but still runs fine though.
So I bought a new 1Gb drive exactly same drive as the one thats getting sick. I did the clone thing, with super duper, CCC, DU, but no matter it will not boot when i move the new drive inside the macbook…….**** thing exuse me, but wasted so much time.
Now I get this strange feeling that something must have changed in the macbook itself. Just wondering if this could be a EFI "mac bios" prevention thing, they made just to sell more new computers, when you can't improve or fix your old one.
If so, then its pretty scary. If not then I simply can't figure out why this suddenly becomes a problem for so many people, as I see so many posts about this!!
BR Pete

Why do my macbook pro mid-2012 stop searching the web page?, why do my macbook pro mid-2012 stop searching the web page?, why do my macbook pro mid-2012 stop searching the web page?

i dont know why but my macbook pro just stop to open a web page and frezee there im very nervios obut somthing that can be...... help me please.
it is brand new like 10 days

A new Mac comes with 90 days of free tech support from AppleCare.
You can return / exchange a Mac within 14 days of purchase.
Do not be nervous.
AppleCare: 1-800-275-2273
Best.

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