Macs below that can't install Snow Leopard directly may be able to do so via virtualization, as described by this tip. The Macs listed here that won't run Snow Leopard also are not able to use the retail Lion installer USB Flash drive, and must use the instructions onMacworld to create a specialty Flash drive or be cloned onto another hard drive before their prebundled hard drive dies, to be able to restore Lion. You will need a dual layer disc drive and a dual layer DVD for this image. 10.6.8 has the following security updates: 10.6.8 2013 Security Update 004, 2013-005 Java update (note Java is not current until Mac OS X 10.7.3 from ) Sometimes when 10. This image can also be used to install 10.6.7 (and update to 10.6.8, of course) on Late 2011 MacBook Pros. Lion prebundled Macs thankfully can run Windows in virtualization, which would allow them to use the Windows version of software that may only run in Snow Leopard and earlier on Mac OS X. Works only on systems which support Snow Leopard. The Macs below which can only run Lion and later, are also known as Lion prebundled Macs. A second internal or external hard drive can boot into a separate operating system on the same Macs. Partitioning requires an erase of the hard drive. I had the same problem when I installed Yosemite but I was able to install the legacy java fix (Java for OS X 2014-001) from Apples website. Together with partitioning, the Core2Duo (not CoreDuo, not CoreSolo), Xeon, Core i3, i5, i7 Macs which are Snow Leopard compatible can run both Snow Leopard and Lion, provided they have at least 2 GB of RAM. Starting with Java 8 Update 25 (8u25), download and install Java 8 from bug was fixed in 8u20 which had prevented the installation of prior releases of Java on Mac OS X 10.10.

Older Macs indicated below can use the 10.6.3 retail installer, if not the 10.6 retail installer, if they are older than August 28, 2009. Machine ID is in Apple menu -> About This Mac -> More info (on 10.7 and later the About Window has System Information instead of More info to access the System Profiler) under the hardware section. You can find out which gray installer disc came with Macs that can install Snow Leopard newer than Maby reading.

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