It is possible that this news seems to you that we have recycled it from the past, but no. Lion and Mountain Lion are momentarily back in the news because they can now be downloaded, legally and officially, for free.
And is that, even if you don't believe it (and maybe you don't care) until now for Apple the price of those operating systems was still € 15,99, the price on the day of its launch.
Starting last week, these updates are free and can be downloaded from the OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion support documents on Apple's website.
Out of curiosity, Mountain Lion was the first operating system to be sold exclusively digitally, and Apple also marketed Mountain Lion on a USB stick.
Mac OS X Lion is compatible with Macs equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7 or Xeon processor, at least 2GB of RAM and 7GB of storage.
Mac OS X Mountain Lion is compatible with the following Macs:
- iMac (mid 2007-2020)
- MacBook (late aluminum 2008, early 2009 or later)
- MacBook Pro (mid / late 2007 or later)
- MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
- Mac mini (2009 onwards)
- Mac Pro (early 2008 or later)
- Xserve (inizio 2009)
However, Macs shipped with Mac OS X Mavericks or later do not support the installer.
