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Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4

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On 2014-03-08, paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink <paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink> wrote:
> I bought a MacBook Pro about a year and a half ago.  It came with Lion
> loaded on the drive, but I was entitled to a free upgrade to Mountain
> Lion.  I put in for the free upgrade but, for a variety of reasons, held
> off installing it.  Today I decided to do so.  So my About this Mac now
> reads OSX 10.8.  I then wanted to upgrade to the latest reasonably
> unbuggy version.  After a little research I figure that this may well be
> 10.8.4.  I definitely do not want to go to Maverick, OSX 9, free or
> otherwise.  This old dog doesn't wish to learn a lot of new tricks.  But
> I can't find a link anywhere for what use to be considered a free
> upgrade version.  Three questions:
>
> 1)  What the hell is going on with Apple?  A few years ago it would have
> been inconceivable that I would have to ask this group a question like
> this.  It seems that Apple has transformed itself into an involuntary
> suppository injector.

I'm confused as to why you are having a hard time finding this, and have
to wonder what exactly you've tried so far in your search. 

It almost sounds as if you do not want to use Apple's built-in software
update facility (Apple menu > Software Update). Are you averse to using
that for some reason?

Anyhow, a simple Google search shows a hit on support.apple.com named
"OS X Mountain Lion Update v10.8.4 - Apple - Support - Downloads".
Clicking that leads you here, where you can manually download and
install said update (and even some newer ones):

<http://support.apple.com/downloads/#osxmountainlion>

> 2)  Is this link/upgrade available?

See above.

> 3)  Any feedback on my choice of 10.8.4?

In general, I would encourage you to use the latest available release.

If you are willing to use 10.8, then you should strongly consider
upgrading to 10.9, which fixes a whole lot of issues that people
complained about when 10.8 was released. In a lot of ways, 10.9 is a big
round of fixes for issues introduces in 10.8.

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JR

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System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink - 2014-03-08 17:45 -0600
  Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 billy@MIX.COM - 2014-03-09 00:14 +0000
    Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink - 2014-03-08 18:35 -0600
      Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 billy@MIX.COM - 2014-03-09 00:55 +0000
        Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2014-03-09 16:20 -0400
        Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink - 2014-03-09 19:21 -0600
      Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-09 11:45 -0400
  Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-03-09 00:55 +0000
  Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-09 01:18 +0000
    Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 paulfuchs@spamain'tkosher.oink - 2014-03-09 13:20 -0600
      Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-09 20:44 +0000
      Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-09 23:10 +0000
        Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-03-10 14:45 +1300
          Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-10 15:31 +0000
  Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-09 07:25 +0000
    Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-09 10:42 -0500
    Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-03-09 15:58 +0000
      Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-09 23:05 +0000
        Re: System Upgrade from 10.8 to 10.8.4 me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-03-10 02:12 +0000

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