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Snow Leopard and brand new iMac
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laieboy
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Aug 17, 2011, 06:29 AM
 
Is it possible to install Snow Leopard on a brand new iMac with Lion pre-installed? I would like to use the 27" iMac for my Pro Tools rig but it is not compatible with Lion just yet.
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Aug 17, 2011, 07:00 AM
 
It is if you can get a version of 10.6.8, which isn't available directly on a disc AFAIK. There are various interesting ways to achieve that - easiest is probably to set the iMac in Target Disk Mode and run a Firewire cable to a host computer that you can run 10.6.0 on. Then boot install the OS on the target disk and reboot the host from the target disk. You can then upgrade to 10.6.8 in the usual way, shut everything down and finally boot the new iMac into SL.
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Aug 17, 2011, 07:39 AM
 
You could also try to source the Snow Leopard discs that came with an identical model. It might be possible to get hold of them from Apple.
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