[Ham-Mac] OT: upgrading to Lion

dalej dalej2 at mac.com
Sat Dec 10 16:37:09 EST 2011


Hi Hal,

I for one am using the 3.6 Ghz I5 iMac.  I should be ok with 10.7.

And, thanks for the info... I'm waiting till the last minute come maybe June or a little before, that is unless I change my thinking and switch before that.  

73
Dale, k9vuj


On 10, Dec 2011, at 15:28, Hal Mueller wrote:

> The iLife and iWork suites are separate applications. If you already have them, and if they're a Lion-compatible version, then they'll stick around and you can use them after the upgrade.
> 
> The Migration Assistant will ask you what to migrate/restore from Time Machine: from memory I think you get your pick of just user accounts, user accounts plus home directories, applications, and maybe more.
> 
> You mentioned you moved to the Intel Mini "some years ago". Not all Intel Macs are supported under Lion--you need at least a Core 2 Duo. Core Duo won't cut it because the OS is now 64 bit.
> 
> I haven't tried running Lion in 2 GB. My machines are dev boxes, so I put extra memory in them.
> 
> 73 Hal N3YX
> 
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