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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Finally got my new iMac!
Date: 28 Mar 2015 22:26:42 GMT
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On 2015-03-28, sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:10:59 +0000, Jolly Roger wrote:
>
>> On 2015-03-28, sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 02:04:19 -0600, Neill Massello wrote:
>>>
>>>> sctvguy1 <sctvguy1@invalid.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Where would I get the CDs/DVDs for the OS?
>>>> 
>>>> There are no discs for 10.7 and later, but you may be able to find
>>>> 10.6 DVDs at Amazon or at We Love Macs <http://www.welovemacs.com/>.
>>>
>>> Thank you, I did find the stuff on Amazon, the Lion thumb drives, and
>>> even Mavericks and 10.10 on Kingston thumb drives that you can buy from
>>> people.
>> 
>> The whole idea of installing a new operating system is to insure your OS
>> is free of nasties that someone else may have put there. Purchasing some
>> thumb drive some stranger created isn't going to help there. Just
>> purchase it from Apple directly.
>
> Amazon has the original Lion thumb drive, as does ebay.

Personally, I'd skip Lion (10.7) and go straight to Yosemite (10.10)
since a lot of problems in Lion and Mountain Lion, and even Mavericks,
are solved in Yosemite.

> I would not trust somebody's homemade thumbdrive.

Good!

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