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Thanks guys, I will be testing 10.8 and CS6 within our corp network with crossed fingers!
From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv]
On Behalf Of Jim Curtis
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 11:06 AM
To: After Effects Mail List
Subject: Re: [AE] downgrade newer MacBook Pro
Right. If you buy the OS in a standalone package, it should work on all qualified Macs. You can often find shrink-wrapped older versions at VARs or on eBay. I believe Lion was $30, so you don't stand to lose much except some time, if
you clone your disk first and then give it a try.
On Dec 3, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Carey Dissmore wrote:
For as long as I can remember, Apple has issued specific, customized installer disks whenever they issue new hardware between major OS revisions. These are custom builds of the Mac OS that contain the specific drivers, enablers, etc. for
the new hardware in questions.
These items are rolled in with the next major "retail" OS release. This system, once understood, explains why many Mac OS installer discs will not work on other Macs. They lock that down a bit but the retail ones are more universal. The
appear to be continuing this somewhat in the era of App-store delivered OS updates, with some modification.
Whatever the case, Apple has never made it easy or simple to go backwards to a version of the Mac OS that pre-dates the hardware launch date. Sometimes you can find a few enterprising users with time on their hands that have figured out
how to do it by moving certain files to the old OS, etc. but that's the level of time-sinking geekery you are going to have to resort to in order to do it.
I am hearing that the newer Non-Retina Display 15” model cannot be downgraded from the installed 10.8 to 10.7.
Can anyone confirm this? I don’t see why you can’t boot to external drive, erase and install from a 10.7 image. But I am hearing something about 10.8 firmware?!?!
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