I want to upgrade my Mac OSX from 10.6.8 to 10.7. Free upgrade?

April 29, 2015 6:41 AM

I want to upgrade my Mac OSX from 10.6.8 to 10.7 and then eventually to 10.8. I am looking for free upgrades. Can you point me in the right direction? Thank you hive
posted by citybuddha to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

These particular releases were paid updates ($19.99 each). You can still get them from Apple for that price: Lion (10.7) and Mountain Lion (10.8).

The current version (Yosemite, 10.10) is available for free and can be installed directly over your 10.6.8 installation depending on which Mac you own. Learn more about that here.
posted by papayaninja at 6:50 AM on April 29, 2015

These cost money if you do it in any legitimate way.
posted by jessamyn at 7:05 AM on April 29, 2015

You should be able to upgrade directly from 10.6.8 to 10.8. That would be the cheapest solution ($19.99 as papayaninja points out above). Make sure your computer supports 10.8 first, though.

Or, if your computer supports 10.9 (Mavericks), you can update directly to 10.9 for free (look in the App Store).
posted by wearyaswater at 9:37 AM on April 29, 2015

As others have said, you have to pay to upgrade. But just be forewarned, there seems to be some sort of weird issue with non-Yosemite OS upgrades right now. I paid for Mountain Lion a few days ago but the App Store won't let me download it because it is "being modified." Many others are having this same problem and nobody at Apple has provided a solution. See this forum link for lots of angry customers:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7010422?start=0&tstart=0

I can't upgrade to Yosemite yet (I use lots of audio production software that doesn't work properly in Yosemite), so I'm kind of stuck for the moment, and Apple has a policy of not refunding software purchases. So, that's fun.
posted by darkchocolatepyramid at 2:08 PM on April 29, 2015

Honestly, I'm still on 10.6.8, myself (late 2009 21" iMac), and, if I were going to upgrade, I would skip 10.7 entirely and go for either 10.8 or 10.9.

If your Mac is as old as mine, I would advise against 10.10, though. It may support it, but it doesn't like to run it.
posted by Thorzdad at 2:10 PM on April 29, 2015