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Can the 2012 Macbook Pro non retina model run snow leopard? Certain drivers are said to not allow the 2011 Mac Mini run Snow leopard. Is this the case for that machine as well?
I’ve never seen a Mac able to run a system earlier than it came with. It usually just won’t install. This comes with Pre-Installed MacOS: X 10.7.3 (11D2097).
Looking for a nightmare ? Try installing Snow Leopard on this model. Ain’t going to happen. I’m not the only one who prefers Snow Leopard over Lion. Even after trying everything I took it to a mac repair shop who couldn’t do a thing with it. Apparantly the i7 doesn’t support earlier os x’s. Nice trick apple thanks . Next time if it’s not broke don’t fix it like like the launchpad what the @$*^ is that ? or the microsoft idiot questions are you sure you really want too . All my files ? In a folder built into the shell? . So I’m stuck with Lion. After I buy a new ssd. Because it choked on the install. Don’t offer any advice because I won’t receive it . Love your Lion Os x and your Mountain Lion . My Bad.
If you have a 10.6.8 clone from a fresh Snow Leopard install. You can copy this with Superduper (if clone is made by the same program) to the HD of the “Lion machine”. In most caseses it runs ok with SL. Some times it needs a bit of tweaking. I have a modern 2011 Mac Mini which came with Lion. This machines now runs SL with full 100% functionality. The clone is the key. Mine came from my earlier 2008 iMac. However I think this stops at the 2011 version of all macs. I can’t prove this but I guess the new graphics card is not included in the driver package of updated SL. But 2011 and earlier is fully (as far as I know) supported. My Mac Mini proves this.
This is actually not easily done. This was a bit of a dissapointment in the hackintosh community. Those people who went out and bought an Ivy Bridge CPU the second they could (like me and my i5 3570K), could not boot snowleopard. Not even the install disk. The OS is simply not writen to operate on an Ivy Bridge CPU platform. My machine would just reboot the second the disk booted. I saw the apple logo for about half a second (When the CPU loads in the boot up cache) then it just went into a boot loop. Only Mountain Lion and later versions on Lion support Ivy Bridge plateforms simply becuase they provide code for Ivy Bridge CPUs. Then if you were to find a way to downgrade to a OS two OSes old, and actually had a need for this…That MacBook Pro would be a hackintosh…
it will just show an error and says I need to restart so I rebooted into my normal disc
