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Snow Leopard Upgrade to Lion on MacBook Pro

Dec 27, 2011 11:47AM PST

I read that most of the MacBook Pros made in 2010 won't upgrade properly to Lion 10.7.2 because of the video card. Is this true??? Do I have to wait for the next version of Lion?

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Where did you hear that?
Dec 27, 2011 8:58PM PST

I think your information may be flawed

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Dec 29, 2011 2:36AM PST

Don't remember where I saw it, was quite a while back.

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There were reports
Dec 27, 2011 9:31PM PST

There were reports of a bad nVidia driver in the initial Lion release, but haven't heard much since, so I would assume somewhere between 10.7-10.7.2, they fixed it. Think it only affected the 330m chipset at that.

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Thanks!
Dec 29, 2011 2:35AM PST

<span id="INSERTION_MARKER"><span id="INSERTION_MARKER">I have a NVIDIA GeForce 320M --- think I will go ahead and upgrade when I have a lot of spare time, I've heard that it takes hours to upgrade.

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(NT) You do hear some strange stuff
Dec 29, 2011 9:34AM PST
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It might
Dec 29, 2011 9:57AM PST

It might take hours to upgrade to Lion if you have a fairly slow Internet connection. Or if you just HAD to be one of the first people to get a copy when it was released, so the servers were overloaded. Or plenty of other scenarios that basically boil down to people mistakenly equating one thing to another.