You will be sent physical media by mail after placing your order.Īfter you install Snow Leopard you will have to download and install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 to update Snow Leopard to 10.6.8 and give you access to the App Store. You must purchase Snow Leopard through the Apple Store: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.). To access the App Store you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or later installed. Mountain Lion can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for $19.99. You can upgrade to Mountain Lion from Lion or directly from Snow Leopard. Upgrade Paths to Snow Leopard, Lion, and/or Mountain Lion
If it's a Core 2 Duo with at least 2 GBs of RAM installed, then you can upgrade at least to Lion and possibly to Mountain Lion. If it's a Core Duo model with 1 GB or RAM or more, then you can upgrade to Snow Leopard only.