Like I mentioned above, before you order Lion make sure you don’t want or can’t to go to Mountain Lion. Read my post “ How to upgrade from Leopard (10.5) to Snow Leopard (10.6)” for more details on how to do that. If you can’t go to Mountain Lion, then you still need to get Snow Leopard installed because you can’t go from Leopard to Lion or Mountain Lion directly, you must first get Snow Leopard (10.6). Go from Leopard to Snow Leopard ($20) then Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion ($20).
If you do you’ll spend an extra $20 because each upgrade is $20. If your machine can go all the way up to Mountain Lion (10.8) then don’t bother going to Lion. 10.5.x is Leopard and 10.6.x is Snow Leopard. The number under the Apple logo is the version you are on. You can find out what OS X version you are on by clicking on the Apple icon, then select the “About This Mac” menu item. Order it, get the email, download it and you are good to go. It’s only $20 from Apple and you are 100% sure it is the right version and not a scam.Īpple will send you an email to download Lion, instead of sending you DVDs like they do with Snow Leopard. Don’t bother with 3rd party sources (eBay, Amazon, Craigslist, etc).
Lion (10.7) isn’t available to purchase thru the App Store, but you can still get it for $20 from Apple directly by calling 1-800-MY-APPLE (1-80). As of today the latest version of Mac OS X is Mountain Lion, so you might as well just install that, but you don’t want to or if you machine doesn’t support it then you’ll want to go with Lion. Apple intentionally pulled it from the App Store so people would go right to Mountain Lion (10.8) instead. If you need more App Support after that, I recommend using the MacOS Catalina patcher, which walks you through and lets you install Catalina on unsupported machines, and because of your 8gb of ram it will be able to handle itself well in Catalina.As you may have noticed Lion (10.7) is no longer available in the App Store. This link should take you to El Capitan’s download page on the App Store, from there all you need to do is download and install El Capitan. You may need to repeat that step a couple of times to make sure Snow Leopard is fully up to date, but when it is follow this link on Safari while on the machine. After that, click on “Show more” and make sure it doesn’t install the Airport of iLife Updates, as it will not be able to update if you try to install those. As for upgrading the OS on the HDD, all you need to do is click on the Apple Logo at the top left side of the screen, click on software update, and let it download the updates. This one’s kind of complicated because of the SSD upgrade you plan to do, you may just want get a bootable USB stick of El Capitan to install on both of the machines.
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