Will Lion run on macbook pro 1.1 2006 running snow leopard
Trying to find out if lion will run on 2006 macbook pro 1.1 running snow leopard , trying to sync my i5 to itunes 10.7 as i get an error message when i plug i5 in saying i need version 10.7 . laptop recognises i5 as camera Anu ideas
Dazfin wrote:
Trying to find out if lion will run on 2006 macbook pro 1.1 running snow leopard 10.6 , trying to sync my i5 to itunes 10.6 as i get an error message when i plug i5 in saying i need itunes version 10.7 . laptop recognises i5 as camera Any ideas
What are your computer specs, memory, etc.
Cheers
Pete
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Please google search for "Mountain Lion disk crash" before upgrading you mac pro. You might need to replace you Mac hard drive after the upgrade.So many people had the same problems including me.
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I want to install the latest OS, but I already know that I will lose a lot of my software unless I can partition the hard drive and have two "bootable" drives.
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I do not currently own OS X ML.
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After I back-up my HD and then partition the HD, how do I use the back-up to reinstall what I want to the SL partition, and then place the rest on the ML partition.
I have not done what you want to do, so can only offer some general thoughts in support. Take value from the following where you can. No guarantees.
If it was me, I would use a disk clone utility (e.g. Carbon Copy Cloner) to image the existing Snow Leopard disk to an external drive. Then verify that the external drive would boot and run Snow Leopard normally.
I would then purchase and download the Mountain Lion upgrade installer, but not run it. Use Lion Diskmaker to make a bootable USB stick, and perform a clean install of Mountain Lion, replacing the Snow Leopard on your MBP. This way, you make absolutely certain that no third-party drivers or other SL cruft remains to make Mountain Lion unstable. Update to latest ML point release. Fix permissions. Let TimeMachine make a full backup of your ML installation to a different external drive. Then turn of Time Machine.
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Now ideally, you would like to reverse the external clone and put it back into the new SL partition. Then fix permissions. And demonstrate that you can boot into individually stable OS X installations. This would save you alot of work. Resist copying your home directory into ML just yet.
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I have an extra hard drive.
I have iDisk.
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You could've just left that button alone.
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Downgrade latest macbook pro late 2009 model from snow leopard to leopard?
hi all,
I have been contemplating investing in a new macbook pro 15 for quite a few weeks so hope someone can give me a clear answer on this.
basically i have a 3ghz mac pro 8 core intel machine with lots of pro apps, logic studio (8) and FCP HD studio 2 etc running on leopard.... these were designed for that os. I do not think that if i bout a macbook pro with snow leopard installed, that these apps would work so is there a way of successfully downgrading from SL to L, i have read that you need to downgrade to atleast L 10.5.6/ 10.5.7 for the mbp to recognise the correct drivers sets etc....is that correct? is it as easy as that?
If i downgrade the most recent mbp model to leopard does anyone know if all the functions will work, trackpad gestures , port etc...I just want to have 2 identical systems at the end of the day one mac pro and one mbp with the same configs so i can take my video/audio out of the studio
I refuse to upgrade to the latest app versions for the sake of an os (which is currently buggy according to most)
my configuration for my mbp would be the 3.06Ghz processor (with the matte screen!) and 500gb 7200 8gb RAM.
Please tell me if someone has done this procedure and had their mbp working fine or any probs encountered if i was to do this!?
I would be buying the mbp brand new with no data so no need for a back up with time machine etc..i just need a clean install of L os.
thanks in advance
l.wThere have been several reports here from people who have downgraded mid-2009 MBPs that came with SL installed on them to Leopard. As a general matter Apple discourages this...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186
...and in most cases it is impossible to directly install any older OS on a Mac than the one that was installed on it at the factory, or impossible to boot the computer if one does so by indirect means (e.g., cloning from another computer or an external hard drive). So this seems to be a special case where what is usually impossible can be done successfully, but it is probably true that no earlier version than 10.5.7, build 9J3050, will be usable. That's the build that was installed on all Mid-2009 MBPs in the early days of their production run, before the introduction of Snow Leopard. I don't know whether there is any retail Leopard installer DVD for that version or for 10.5.8; they may be available only on model-specific DVDs.
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MacBook Pro 4,1 8GB Ram Snow Leopard
Hello, i have a 15" 2.5GHz MacBook Pro Penryn Early 2008.
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i can deal with 6GB, i mean 8 is kinda overkill but if i was able to do it, why the **** not lol.
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