Re: MCL on latest Mac Mini

Any system released in the Snow Leopard era can be down graded ( All current iMac, Macbook Pro, Mac Pro system ). 

See:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3195589?start=0&tstart=0

I've personally done this with the current iMac systems.

Any system that was released post Lion ( such as the current 2011 Macbook Air and 2011 Mac Mini ( such as your core i5 ) ), can only run Lion or later, as Snow Leopard never supported them, and thus lacks the device profile to boot the system. 

cheers,
-bp


On Jan 14, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Laughing Water wrote:

> This may apply to your question. Last summer I bought some refurbished iMacs for the sake of getting them with Snow Leopard. They came with Lion. After quite some effort, including considerable time with Apple's tech support, I was told by a more senior Apple tech support person that a Mac cannot be back-graded to a system earlier than the one it is shipped with.
> 
> Maybe someone's got some way around that, but the answer I was given was stated as being definitive.
> 
> Laughing Water
> 
> On Jan 14, 2012, at 3:32 PM, peter wrote:
> 
>> Can MCL run on a current i5 Mac Mini that's been back-graded to Snow Leopard?
>> 
>> The Apple Store folks are a little ambiguous about whether a backgrade from Lion to SL is possible after a recent firmware upgrade.
>> 
>> Any insights on this would be appreciated asap.
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