Apple announced that Mac OS X Lion and Mac OS X Mountain Lion will be available for free download in the summer of 2021. The company has kept OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion available to customers with hardware limited to legacy software. But until recently it was charging $20 to provide the download for updates. This is the first time that any version of the operating system is available for free.
All versions of the operating system released after these versions were delivered free of charge to users of Apple products. Beginning with Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Apple began making updates to its operating system free of charge for compatible devices.
You can still buy Mac OS X lion and Mac OS X Mountain Lion at the company's store for $20 each. But they are also made available free of charge through Apple's support documents. With the Mac OS X Lion installer page or the Mac OS X Mountain Lion installer page, you can register and download each version of the operating system for free.
And 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, and you'll also need 2GB of RAM and 8GB of data storage. And if you want to download Mac OS X Lion. You need to have OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or OS X Lion 10.7 installed, and you also need 7GB of data storage and 2GB of RAM across your device.
Mac OS X Lion is compatible with Macs with a Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor. This version of the Mac OS X Lion installer is about 4.72 GB in size by itself. It was first published for free on June 23, 2021. The current version of the Mac OS X Mountain Lion installer was published on June 23, 2021, and has a file size of 4.45 GB.
These downloads are likely to be used by IT professionals to recover data from old Apple computers. While some of the oldest workable Apple devices contain recoverable data, the software used to recover data is not always compatible with operating systems, and these free systems may make the recovery process simpler.
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