Hey kid , come have a seat around my shake chair , and let this honest-to-god timer tell you of a time of yore , a clip when that high - pep pill internet connexion you always employ for the Ticky Tockys , steaming movies , and whatnot did n’t exist . Back then , when we had to do something like instal Mac OS , we used a doodad holler anoptical disk , which had the software package on it .
Well , asClassicII_MrMacon X ( formerly Twitter ) put it dead , “ Today is a distressing day . ” That ’s because Apple no longer betray the optical disk installers for OS X Lion 10.7 and Mountain Lion 10.8 .
Today is a sorry day … you could no longer buy OS X Mountain Lion from the Apple online store. 😂 pic.twitter.com / Pxa6pHrU9 t
Apple either in the end sold out its stock or decided to ditch the discs to make warehouse blank space for FineWoven iPhone case .
The signs were there that this was drop dead to chance – you ca n’t turn back the future from amount . Two years ago , Apple started to volunteer Lion and Mountain Lion as free downloads . They ’re useable on Apple ’s accompaniment website , and if you need ’em , here are the links :
And two years ago , I write that it was strangethat Apple still offer the Lion and Mountain Lions magnetic disc for $ 19.99 . The previous me now think it was n’t so strange because good deal of older macintosh are still in use – plus , it ’s an easy $ 20 for Apple to make .
If you ask to put those installers on a disk or USB drive , we have instructions :
you may also readHow to get an older rendering of macOS or Mac OS X.
Lion runs on Macs that come before Mountain Lion in 2012 . Mountain Lion wreak on the following :
If you desperately want an official Lion or Mountain Lion disc , you ’ll have to turn to online market place such as eBay . And if you have one , here ’s some advice from this old timer : You might want to contain on to it for a while . Chances are , years from now , someone will be willing to paybig bucks for it at an auction .
Another option , find outhow to run new versions of macOS on unsupported Macs .
