Hmmm, well . . . It occurs to me that even if it turns out you do need Snow Leopard, it ought to be possible to boot from a drive that does have it and use that to jump through whatever stupid hoops Lion requires. Unless I'm deluding myself, and there's something even ickier going on than insisting that we have to buy things through the apps store, which doesn't work without goddamned Snow Leopard. Which was one of the only reasons I ever even considered the intermediate upgrade.
But the more I try to contemplate this, the odder it seems that they wouldn't keep SL available -- surely they want people to adopt the new OS? And one of the reasons some of us are loyal to Apple is the way their high-end laptops are solid enough machines so that they'll be functional through many generations of OS; it's not as if all their users whose machines came with Leopard installed are going to be looking at new computers before Lion itself is obsolete.
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Date: 15 Oct 2011 03:46 am (UTC)But the more I try to contemplate this, the odder it seems that they wouldn't keep SL available -- surely they want people to adopt the new OS? And one of the reasons some of us are loyal to Apple is the way their high-end laptops are solid enough machines so that they'll be functional through many generations of OS; it's not as if all their users whose machines came with Leopard installed are going to be looking at new computers before Lion itself is obsolete.