Apple announces OSX Lion

[TheStu]

So can I interpret this as Mac user has never been able to "jump" upgrade? say from 10.3 to 10.5 or 10.6 to 10.8?

No, the Mac App Store is new. You could have gone from 10.0 - 10.4 if the hardware supported it. I took an old G3 Pismo from OS 9? to 10.3. 10.4 wouldn't install on it since it didn't have firewire and I didn't feel like jumping through hoops.

My friend went from 10.3 on his PowerBook to 10.5 and then went from 10.4 to 10.6 on his MacBook. There will be a way to get this in some sort of physical form and you should be able to put it onto any 64bit intel system at the very least. I don't have a working Core Duo to test on so I can't say if they can run 10.7 or now.

 

[rugby]

So can I interpret this as Mac user has never been able to "jump" upgrade? say from 10.3 to 10.5 or 10.6 to 10.8?

While the possibility is there to accomplish this, skipping versions *might* not give you the results you are looking for.

What I would do is clone my installed drive to an external, wipe the internal and install Lion and then run the migration assistant back to the internal.

 

[mugs]

So can I interpret this as Mac user has never been able to "jump" upgrade? say from 10.3 to 10.5 or 10.6 to 10.8?

As far as I know you've been able to upgrade from any version to any version up until Snow Leopard and Lion, but of which only cost ~$30. Snow Leopard had a licensing restriction that limited it to upgrading Leopard, but there was no technical restriction so many people ignored the license. Puma (10.1) was also a free upgrade for 10.0 users. Other versions have been $100-129, and I don't think they had similar license restrictions.

 

[Kaido]

Burn the Mac App Store version of OS X Lion to a DVD:

http://gizmodo.com/5813006/burn-the-mac-app-store-version-of-os-x-lion-to-a-dvd