Apple Makes Os X Lion and Mountain Lion Free to Download

Apple recently dropped the $xix.99 fee for Os X Lion and Mount Lion, making the older Mac updates costless to download, reports Macworld .

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Apple has kept OS X 10.7 Lion and Bone X 10.viii Mountain Lion available for customers who have machines limited to the older software, but until recently, Apple was charging $19.99 to get download codes for the updates.

As of last calendar week, these updates no longer require a fee, and can exist downloaded from the OS X Panthera leo and OS X Mountain Lion support documents on Apple'southward website.

Mac Os X King of beasts 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 X Mount King of beasts is compatible with the post-obit Macs:

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

Macs that shipped with Mac OS X Mavericks or later are not compatible with the installer, however.

The $19.99 fee dates back to when Apple used to accuse for Mac updates. Apple began making Mac updates free with the launch of OS X 10.9 Mavericks, which also marked the shift from big true cat names to California landmark names.

Mavericks was free to download, and Apple has not charged for Mac software since then exterior of the legacy Panthera leo and Mount Lion updates. Apple as well used to have OS X 10.6 Snowfall Leopard available for a fee, only it is no longer purchasable.

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