For more on Mountain Lion, be sure to read the official Cult of Mac review. OS X Mountain Lion brings a lot of great things from iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to the Mac.
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A USB Flash drive version will become available in the future, but there is a way to get a clean install from a DVD or USB Flash Drive now with some effort. Mac OS X Mountain Lion (version 10.8) is the nineth major release of Mac OS X (now named macOS), Apple’s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. If your only Mac was released after Lion, so you can’t download the Lion installer from the Mac App Store, I’ve also provided instructions for creating a bootable Lion-install drive for newer. If you’d rather install Mountain Lion without a bootable copy and keep your setup the way it is, refer to our general tutorial. Apple disregarded these concerns with the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion by only allowing the initial release in the Mac App Store for download. Choose your Mac’s hard drive and begin installing Mountain Lion.īy following those steps, your Mac will be restored to Apple’s stock setup and all of your personal files will be gone.
#DOWNLOAD FLASH FOR MAC LION UPDATE#
For a clean install of Mountain Lion on any compatible Mac, follow these steps: Click on the Browse button and locate the. On the right pane, go to the Restore tab. Now that you have a bootable copy of Mountain Lion, this drive/disk acts as a full-fledged setup tool for upgrading other Macs to the new OS. This is very handy for us Macbook Air users that do not have an external optical drive.