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| Apple provides Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion for free |
Apple made free downloads for Mac OS X Lion and Mac OS X Mountain Lion available in the summer of 2021.
The company has made OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion available to customers whose hardware is limited to legacy software. But until recently, the cost to update downloads was $20.
This is the first time that a version of the operating system has been made available for free.
All versions of the operating system released after these versions are freely available to users of Apple products.
Starting with Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Apple started to update its operating system for free for compatible devices.
You can still buy Mac OS X Lion and Mac OS X Mountain Lion for $20 each at the company's store. However, it can also be made available for free via Apple Support documents.
If you go to the Mac OS X Lion installation page or the Mac OS X Mountain Lion installation page, you can register and download any version of the operating system for free.
If you want to download Mac OS X Mountain Lion. You need at least OS X Snow Leopard, Lion 10.7, or Mountain Lion 10.8.
You also need 2 GB of RAM and 8 GB of data storage.
If you want to download Mac OS X Lion. You need to install OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or OS X Lion 10.7.
Your device also requires 7 GB of data storage and 2 GB of RAM.
Apple provides the old system for free
Mac OS X Lion is compatible with Mac computers with Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processors.
This version of the Mac OS X Lion installer is approximately 4.72 GB in size and was first released for free on June 23, 2021.
The current version of the installer for Mac OS X Mountain Lion was released on June 23, 2021 and has a file size of 4.45 GB.
IT professionals are more likely to use these downloads to recover data from old Apple computers.
Although some older Apple devices have recoverable data. The software used to recover data is not always compatible with the operating system. This free system can facilitate the redemption process.