Apple Makes Bone X Lion and Mountain Panthera leo Complimentary to Download

Apple recently dropped the $19.99 fee for OS X King of beasts and Mountain Lion, making the older Mac updates free to download, reports Macworld .

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Apple has kept OS X 10.7 Lion and Os X x.8 Mountain Lion bachelor for customers who take machines express to the older software, but until recently, Apple was charging $nineteen.99 to get download codes for the updates.

Every bit of concluding week, these updates no longer crave a fee, and can be downloaded from the OS 10 Lion and Os 10 Mountain Lion support documents on Apple tree'south website.

Mac OS 10 Lion is uniform with Macs that have an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor, a minimum of 2GB RAM, and 7GB storage space.

Mac OS 10 Mountain Lion is compatible with the post-obit Macs:

  • iMac (Mid 2007-2020)
  • MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early on 2009 or newer)
  • MacBook Pro (Mid/Belatedly 2007 or newer)
  • MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
  • Mac mini (Early on 2009 or newer)
  • Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
  • Xserve (Early 2009)

Macs that shipped with Mac Os X Mavericks or later are not uniform with the installer, notwithstanding.

The $19.99 fee dates dorsum to when Apple used to charge for Mac updates. Apple began making Mac updates free with the launch of Bone X 10.ix Mavericks, which besides marked the shift from big true cat names to California landmark names.

Mavericks was free to download, and Apple tree has not charged for Mac software since and then outside of the legacy Lion and Mountain Lion updates. Apple also used to accept OS X x.six Snow Leopard available for a fee, only it is no longer purchasable.

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