
I'm not sure if they will give you a free USB Stick, but they'll do something for you.
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They'll either give you a Snow Leopard installation for free or boost you up to Lion. Tell them your situation (bring in the machine and the Tiger installation disc). In all honesty, the best advice I could give you is to book an appointment at one of your local Apple Stores and speak to a Genius. If you purchases Lion through the Mac App Store, you could install it on any Mac (except those that ship with them of course). I have a new MacBook Air with Lion preinstalled.Īpple machines that ship with Lion cannot be transferred to other devices.Therefore, you cannot use an installation disc from a MacBook Pro on a MacBook or iMac.

For all Macs that are compatible with a specifc maximum supported version of Mac OS X - courtesy of s Ultimate Mac Sort - click the OS of interest. For complete specs on a particular system, click the name of the Mac. The Mac minis, like the MacBook Airs ship with special versions that differ from the ones you purchase through other channels. The maximum version of Mac OS X, OS X, or macOS supported by each G3 and later Mac follows. Minis (like many of the machines Apple manufacturers) come with their own specific versions of OS X.
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If it fails to boot, it could likely be damaged. It will take some getting used to, but I can already see how much faster it is to have all of the Mac OS X controls at my disposal with a press of a single button. From this source (and Diago below), the Snow Leopard upgrade disc contains a full installer, allowing the installation even over a system without any OS whatsoever.

You seem to have bad luck with physical media. I have an upgrade copy of Snow Leopard on DVD.Never done it but the author claims he has, and it worked for him. You can try to repair the disc using this method. I have a copy of Leopard that came with the MacBook.
