With the release by now imminent of the new operating system of the Apple, OS X Lion, in many you/they have asked us if Lion can be installed only as updating of Snow Leopard or if it will be possible to perform a clean installation of it on HD.
And’ evident as the news brought in the last month I concern Lion has aroused, from many consumers OS X, numerous doubts related to the necessary requisite for the istallazione of this new “big release” of the house of Cupertino, and it is for this motive that presses us to clarify once and for all the matter.
We bring the essential points for the istallazione of OS X Lion (version 10.7):
From the side Hardware is necessary to prepare at least of a system Intel Core 2 Duos, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, Xeon, 2GB of RAM and at least 4 GB of space disk for the download
And’ necessary to have a system with least Snow Leopard version 10.6.6 to purchase and to unload Lion from the Mac App Store (this because Lion will exclusively be distributed on the App introduced Store, note, from the version 10.6.6 of Snow Leopard)
Lion asks for Snow Leopard 10.6.6 to be unloaded but Snow Leopard doesn’t necessarily ask for being installed
Once that we have unloaded OS X Lion and started the installer, the program will ask us whether to make to depart the installation on new hard disk, on new partitions or as updating of existing Snow Leopard
is possible, however, to create in non official way his/her own version bootabile of OS X Lion on DVD or USB in such way to be been able to also perform the clean installation of Lion on the hard disk of origin (this procedure will remove completely the requisite of Snow Leopard)
The points above listed I/you/they have been tried with Lion GM and, I doubt, can change with the release of the official version. As it regards the last point, however it is not to exclude, that Apple releases an official procedure for the istallazione “cleaning up” of Lion. We hope to have clarified your doubts, meanwhile we will hock there to adjourn this article in case of novelty with the next final release.