Originally Posted By: deniro
Can you go from Tiger to Snow Leopard or do you need Leopard first?

Can you go from Tiger to Lion without intervening updates?

I'm getting the specs on her laptop.

Hmmm... I believe you can go directly from Tiger to Snow Leopard, but you'd better wait for a "definite" reply.

As for Lion... If your sister has an Intel Mac and is running Tiger, there's a chance that her Mac is not up to Lion specs, particularly:

Originally Posted By: Apple
General requirements

Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor

If she is up to specs, she must install Snow Leopard before she can upgrade to Lion via the Mac App Store; she may be able to avoid Snow Leopard with the OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive, but I don't think trying to go from Tiger to Lion would be a very good idea.


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