I have a macbook white (late 2006) with 1Gb RAM, 120GB HD and Mac OS X 10.5.8 Leopard.
Should I get more RAM or I have to buy a new Mac?
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When Mac OS X Lion comes out this year, could I install it?
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My guess is that Lion will work on your MacBook, Snow Leopard only requires 1GB of RAM. I would get more RAM regardless, you'll see an immediate improvement in performance.
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You have to find out if you have a Core Duo or Core 2 Duo machine. To find out, go to the (Apple) logo in the upper left, click on it, then click on "About this Mac." A window will pop up and tell you what processor you have. From what I'm hearing from the rumors, Lion will only work on 64-bit processors, meaning a Core 2 Duo and higher. If you have a regular Core Duo, sorry, you'll be out of luck since that's a 32-bit only processor. But that's only based on the rumors, but knowing how Apple rolls, I wouldn't be surprised.
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i would definetly up the ram.
I would also guess that you could run Lion on that machine but i don't know if would be worth upgrading to it.
lets say the Lion upgreade is $100 and you are going to spend a few bucks for the memory upgrade i would consiuder putting that money towards a new maching.
But, to answer your question i have not seen anithing saying that Lion would not run on intel machine. i doubt it would run on the old processers as belive they stop supported them with Snow Leapord.
I would also guess that you could run Lion on that machine but i don't know if would be worth upgrading to it.
lets say the Lion upgreade is $100 and you are going to spend a few bucks for the memory upgrade i would consiuder putting that money towards a new maching.
But, to answer your question i have not seen anithing saying that Lion would not run on intel machine. i doubt it would run on the old processers as belive they stop supported them with Snow Leapord.
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You should be able to install. More RAM would improve performance.
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Looks like you'll be able to but you might want to upgrade your RAM. It won't cost that much money and your performance will be a lot better. What are kind of processor do you have?
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As Ed Whittle says above, you *must* have a Core2Duo processor. Core Duo alone will not run Lion.
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