How to get mountain lion

[fwp]

I just went to the apple store to buy mountain lion and it appears to only be available as a download and will only download to a machine running some form of MAC-OS 10.6 or higher. I don't have such a machine and am wondering about how I can get a copy. I hope I don't have to buy a mac first!

 

[Raqsys]

You'll probably have to wait until they sell it as a CD or USB Stick (if at all) - otherwise you'll be stuck to find a legal solution to your needs - you could always purchase OS X Lion and then do the download - you'll have to pay twice but if you want ML would enable you to do it quickly.

 

[Obvious Answer Man]

The only way to get Mountain Lion without a Mac or Hack or access to one is to:

1) Purchase Snow Leopard DVD
2) Install Snow Leopard
3) Upgrade to 10.6.6
4) Purchase Mountain Lion from Mac App Store.

As Apple has stated before there won't be a Mountain Lion USB. And eve if there was you still need a working Mac or Hack to run UniBeast.

 

[fwp]

The only way to get Mountain Lion without a Mac or Hack or access to one is to:

1) Purchase Snow Leopard DVD
2) Install Snow Leopard
3) Upgrade to 10.6.6
4) Purchase Mountain Lion from Mac App Store.

As Apple has stated before there won't be a Mountain Lion USB. And eve if there was you still need a working Mac or Hack to run UniBeast.

I talked to Apple and was told that there will be no USB or dvd with mountain lion.

I did some looking around and found a source for snow leopard (10.6.3) but I'm not sure how to upgrade to 10.6.6. Is that a matter of letting apple install patches?

 

[dpetree]

You should post your specs to see if it can even run ML.. sounds like you might have an old machine

 

[fwp]

You should post your specs to see if it can even run ML.. sounds like you might have an old machine

The mac mini that I have is far to old to support ML or even snow leopard. The machine I'm putting together consists of (or will consist of)

Intel i7-3770
Gigabyte Z77x-UD5H
GTX-550ti
a 240 gig SSD drive
and 32GB of ram

I hope that it'll support ML!

 

[Rankel]

Your best bet is to find a computer running osx and by ML and prepare unibeast on it. A friend or library or school or something has got to have a mac you can use for a few hours.