OS X Lion Upgrade

I know it is late, but I've just started upgrading to Mac OS X Lion from Snow Leopard.

I've waited as it seems that Lion is a big switch compared to prior upgrades.

Anyway, a lot gets dropped with Lion, and be prepared to buy lots of new versions of your apps.

One way around this is to install Lion on a separate partition as a clean install, rather than upgrading your Snow Leonard disc.

Full details of how to do this can be found by googling "osx lion dual boot".

Anyway you use Hard Disc Utility to resize the Snow Leopard Partition, then create a new partition for Lion.

Then install Lion on the new partition. Again the details can be found on the net for how to create an install disc for Lion (given that Apple don't sell physical discs).

It is worth noting that Lion requires 2GB of RAM, the upgrades are cheap now, and whilst you're at it upgrade to a 1TB disc at the same time.

The dual boot works fine. At startup press the command button and you'll get a choice of boot drives. You can also choose the default boot drive in the system config.