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Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' Q&A - Published August 22, 2011

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Dear Lifehacker, Now that Lion is officially available on the Mac App Store, I want to know if you think it's worth the upgrade. I'm pretty happy with Snow Leopard, but Lion looks like it.

• After your OS and apps are up to date, launch the Mac App Store and download OS X Mountain Lion ($19.99 for Upgrade). A Mountain Lion icon will display on the Launchpad while it's downloaded.
• Unfortunately, installing Mountain Lion requires that you already have a Mac running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) or Lion (OS X 10.7). If you're currently running a Leopard system, you're out of luck, and need to pay $29 to upgrade to Snow Leopard, and then an additional $20 to upgrade again to Mountain Lion.

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How do you upgrade to Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' from Mac OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'? Is it possible to upgrade from older versions of Mac OS X?

Apple's official instructions to upgrade to OS X Lion from OS X Snow Leopard are quite simple and involve only three steps -- amounting to little more than 'make sure your Mac can run Lion, make sure you have the latest version of Snow Leopard, and download OS X Lion from the Mac App Store.'

Best case scenario, those instructions are sufficient, and you definitely will need to verify that your Mac is compatible with OS X Lion, that it has at least 2 GB of RAM, and that it has been updated to Mac OS X 10.6.6 'Snow Leopard' or higher (10.6.8 is recommended).

However, before you even get to those three steps you absolutely should do the following:

• Backup absolutely everything. It's always a good idea to 'clone' the entire hard drive to an external drive using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper and make a second backup of individual files that are particularly important. It's not a bad idea to make two full backups of the hard drive should you have the budget to do so.
• Verify that the backups were successful.This step is extremely important!
• Check to make sure that all of your software is compatible with OS X Lion. No PowerPC Mac OS X applications will work with OS X Lion -- even those that would work just fine with Snow Leopard -- and this software will need to be updated or replaced. Those with expensive applications may wish to delay upgrading to allow more time to purchase new software.
• If you are running a Mac for 'mission critical' purposes, it always is wise to wait until others have experimented with OS X Lion on their Macs and a couple of bug fixes have been released.

After making at least one backup of your hard drive, verifying the backups were successful, checking to make sure that your software is compatible and/or you have the funds to upgrade or replace incompatible applications, and accessing your willingness to use your computer to essentially test a new operating system, then you are ready to proceed with Apple's official instructions. Create iso file mac.

Officially, you cannot upgrade a Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 'Leopard' directly to Mac OS X Lion, but MacWorld has provided a clever unofficial method of doing so.

Site sponsor Other World Computing sells a wide variety of external hard drives for backups.

Also see: What are the 'pros and cons' of upgrading to Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion'? Is it worth it? What are the best reasons to upgrade? Are there reasons not to upgrade?

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Can your Mac use Sierra?

macOS Sierra requires one of the following Mac models and versions of OS X. Mac os catalina and office 365. It also requires at least 2GB of memory and 8.8GB of storage space.

• iMac (Late 2009 or newer)
• MacBook (Late 2009 or newer)
• MacBook Pro (Mid 2010 or newer)
• MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer)
• Mac mini (Mid 2010 or newer)
• Mac Pro (Mid 2010 or newer)

• OS X El Capitan v10.11
• OS X Yosemite v10.10
• OS X Mavericks v10.9
• OS X Mountain Lion v10.8
• OS X Lion v10.7

To find your model, memory, storage, and version of OS X, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu (). Alexa setup app for mac desktop.

Get Sierra from the App Store

Before upgrading, it's a good idea to back up your Mac. Then follow these steps:

1. Open the App Store app on your Mac.
2. Search the App Store for macOS Sierra, or go directly to the macOS Sierra page.
3. Click the Download button on the macOS Sierra page. A file named Install macOS Sierra downloads to your Applications folder.
4. After download is complete, Install macOS Sierra opens automatically. (You can also open it from the Applications folder, Launchpad, or Spotlight.) Click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions.
   

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