Hey children, come have a seat round my rocking chair, and let this outdated timer inform you of a time of yore, a time when that high-speed web connection you at all times use for the Ticky Tockys and whatnot didn’t exist. Again then, after we needed to do one thing like set up Mac OS, we used a thingamajig known as an optical disc, which had the software program on it.
Nicely, as on X (previously Twitter) put it completely, “At this time is a tragic day.” That’s as a result of Apple not sells the optical disc installers for OS X Lion 10.7 and Mountain Lion 10.8.
Apple both lastly bought out its inventory or determined to dump the discs to make warehouse house for FineWoven iPhone instances.
The indicators have been there that this was going to occur–you possibly can’t cease the longer term from coming. Two years in the past, Apple began to supply Lion and Mountain Lion as free downloads. They’re out there on Apple’s help web site, and when you want ’em, listed here are the hyperlinks:
And two years in the past, I wrote that it was unusual that Apple nonetheless provided the Lion and Mountain Lions discs for $19.99. The older me now thinks it wasn’t so unusual as a result of numerous older Macs are nonetheless in use–plus, it’s a straightforward $20 for Apple to make.
If it is advisable put these installers on a disc or USB drive, we’ve got directions:
Lion runs on Macs that got here earlier than Mountain Lion in 2012. Mountain Lion works on the next:
- MacBook (Late 2008 to 2010)
- MacBook Air (Late 2008 to mid 2012)
- MacBook Professional (Mid/Late 2007 to mid-2012)
- Mac mini (Early 2009 to 2011)
- iMac (Mid-2007 to 2011)
- Mac Professional (Early 2008 and 2010)
For those who desperately need an official Lion or Mountain Lion disc, you’ll have to show to on-line marketplaces corresponding to eBay. And when you’ve got one, right here’s some recommendation from this outdated timer: You would possibly wish to maintain on to it for some time. Likelihood is, years from now, somebody can be prepared to pay huge bucks for it at an public sale.
