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How do you see what Mac OS you are running? And how do you do the upgrade? Is it free?
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Originally Posted by Mister Rik
I just wanted to encourage anybody who hasn't upgraded to Mac OS X "Lion" yet to do so if you can. I upgraded my 2008 iMac a couple weeks ago, and the difference between Snow Leopard and Lion is like night and day. The game runs as smooth as butter now, and I've even been able to increase many of my graphics settings.
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Originally Posted by Granite Agent
How do you see what Mac OS you are running? And how do you do the upgrade? Is it free?
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The upgrade is not free, though it is pretty cheap. I believe it's $30 to upgrade from Snow Leopard (10.6) to Lion (10.7). From Leopard (10.5), you may need to upgrade in sequence to 10.6 then 10.7, for more $$, but you'd better check that independently from my leaky memory.
To the OP: thanks for the note. I've been planning to upgrade but I wasn't in a hurry. This gives me a good reason.
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I recently upgraded and was looking to go to lion but you do indeed have to get snow first and then lion. At least that was how it was when i did it a couple months ago...pretty sure it hasn't changed yet to a single upgrade.
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Originally Posted by Starry Night
From Leopard (10.5), you may need to upgrade in sequence to 10.6 then 10.7, for more $$, but you'd better check that independently from my leaky memory.
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You might want to check if that's really needed. When I went from 10.4 to 10.6 I officially also needed to go to 10.5 first, but unofficially 10.4 -> 10.6 just worked, Apple even acknowledged it in some support article. It could have been that this was only for 10.4-10.6 though.|
Originally Posted by Last Post
I recently upgraded and was looking to go to lion but you do indeed have to get snow first and then lion. At least that was how it was when i did it a couple months ago...pretty sure it hasn't changed yet to a single upgrade.
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Personally I preferred Snow Leopard over Lion for what they did to Spaces and a few other things.
But my old Macbook is from 2007, so I can't really compare gaming performance. If CoH does run a lot better on Lion, then I suppose I'm happy to have Lion on my new Macbook after all. I can say that CoH does run in Ultra mode at 1680x1050 on my AMD Radeon HD 6750M 512 MB Macbook Pro 15" with Lion very nicely.
I should have also noted that I still can't run Ultra settings, but that's more hardware limitations than anything else.
Just a note: If you are dual booting into Windows at all, I believe you *must* be running either Win Vista or Win 7, XP will not work with Lion AFAIK. Double check on that by all means but I recall not wanting to upgrade until I had upgraded my XP because of something I read about it. I now have upgraded Windows but haven't done the switch to Lion yet :P
I just wanted to encourage anybody who hasn't upgraded to Mac OS X "Lion" yet to do so if you can. I upgraded my 2008 iMac a couple weeks ago, and the difference between Snow Leopard and Lion is like night and day. The game runs as smooth as butter now, and I've even been able to increase many of my graphics settings.