04-21-2014, 04:47 AM
Chakravartin wrote:
[quote=Fritz]
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...sg-1703907
I spoke with an Apple employee today who assures me that if I have a Time Machine b.u. from my current 10.8.5 MBA, this should be installable on a '13 MBA even if it ships with Mavs.
Wipe the new machine and restore. Yet, another one at the NYC 14th store, said it wouldn't take 10.8.5.
According to MacTracker, it shipped with 10.8.4.
Other than the 2 previous responses, anyone have any further info?
You need Time Machine AND a 10.8 installer, if it's gonna work at all.
Not hard to make a 10.8 installer with an 8GB flash drive or a hard drive.
...If you make a 10.8.5 boot drive and bring it to the Apple Store, you can play with booting different Macs to see which Macs will boot from it. If you get stopped by an Apple employee, just explain what you're doing and they'll probably help you.
I assumed since he said "Time Machine b.u. from my current 10.8.5 MBA" that he had the ML installer and/or access to a bootable ML clone from his current MBA to facilitate the rollback... I like your peremptory AS stealth/ninja strategy as a further safeguard, though the new refurb should be a pretty safe bet...
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