Questions & Answers for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

If you also have 5GB of hard drive space, you have the minimum requirements for Snow Leopard.

But, for Lion you will need extra memory. Lion requires a minimum of 2GB of memory. You have the minimum processor requirements. 7GB of hard drive space also required for Lion.

Upgrading is not that expensive. In July I upgraded my mid-2006 24" white iMac. A 2GB memory module cost $30 (I now have 2GB in one slot, and 1GB in the other slot, for a total of 3GB which is max usable by this iMac model). Also, replaced the internal 500GB drive with a new 2TB internal hard drive for $80.

• Answered by Ewald W from Vancouve
• Dec 19, 2011
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No... you can move directly to Snow Leopard (as long as you have an Intel-based Mac). And you only need the $29 Snow Leopard DVD.

Here are the steps I used to move direct from OS 10.4.11 to Snow Leopard.

1) First, keep (or clone to an external bootable drive) your old bootable partition with the old OS on it.

2) Start doing a clean install of Snow Leopard to a fresh partition. In order to do a clean install with the $29 DVD, you will have two options when you start up from the DVD... "Utilities" or "Continue". Select "Utilities" and when the Mac restarts, select "Disk Utilities" from the "Utilities" menu. Do a format of your "fresh" partition and then QUIT "Disk Utilities".

3) Now Snow Leopard will begin installing. During the install, it will search your Mac for all other partitions with an older OS and then ask you if you want to import your OS Settings, Applications and Files from one of those other partitions. Do this for a very smooth upgrade transition to the new OS. (If you decide to not import, then you will end up with a clean install of Snow Leopard instead.)

4) All my Apps from OS 10.4.11 continue to work in Snow Leopard, but some of my printer drivers and scanner utility did not. Until I found those upgrades, I was still able to start up from the OS 10.4.11 partition to use my printers and scanner. To change the Start Up partition, either use the Start Up Disk in System Preferences... or press and hold "option" while your Mac starts up.

• Answered by Ewald W from Vancouve
• Nov 9, 2011
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As far as I know, the Mac OS X Snow Leopard DVD does not contain QuickTime Pro. You have to purchase it from the Apple Website on the QuickTime Pro page.

I hope that this has answered your question.

• Answered by Alexander C from Wilburton, Ely
• Nov 16, 2009
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Yes. I think the cutoff is 90 days, but if you're inside that, then you can get the upgrade for $10.

• Answered by Kevin M from Greenwood
• Oct 28, 2009
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Yes, you would need a family pack for that. The single-user upgrade, as the name suggests it, is for only 1 computer.

• Answered by Anca S from Los Angeles
• Jan 30, 2010
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If you don't already have Snow Leopard, then yes you need to pay for both if you are upgrading to LION.

(A lot cheaper though than the old days of Leopard, which, by itself, cost about $130.)

• Answered by Ewald W from Vancouve
• Jun 5, 2012
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This is the full operating system.

• Answered by Michael M from Pleasanton
• Feb 23, 2011
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I've done the same - buy Snow Leapord from the Apple Online store (google Mac Snow leapord and today when I bought it, it was cheaper from Apple than from Amazon etc - 18 pounds inc. delivery). Install it on the Mac. once this is done, apparently we will then have an App store on our Mac - from the App store buy Mountain Lion and install that.

• Answered by Priya L
• Jan 9, 2013
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Yes, it does. (If its dvd drive works.)

• Answered by Allen D from Goshen
• Oct 8, 2009
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