What's up with mac OSX's, why are they such a PITA if you purchase them through their store? It's almost like they're begging me to pirate their shit
here's my problem,
I have a SSD in an external enclosure, formatted and ready to go. It's plugged into my macbook via USB. I want to install OSX Mountain lion directly onto that SSD (which is currently connecter via USB). How can I (legitimately) buy mountain lion and do this? I know I can upgrade it through app store, but then it will only allow me to install it onto my current Harddrive, right?
Is there any way to buy mountain lion and only download the ISO, and install it directly to my external SSD, and then swap my harddrives?
Sorry if the above sounds so wordy. I already took the data I wanted off my old harddrive, so should I just take the easy route and update my existing harddrive to Mountain Lion then use carbon copy cloner to clone my harddrive to my SSD? Any disadvantages? I have tons of crap on my mac so I just wanted to start with a clean slate again