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 More options Mar 14 2012, 3:24 pm
From: Don <ds1000...@uid.onemain.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:24:33 -0700
Local: Wed, Mar 14 2012 3:24 pm
Subject: Re: Lion on old iMac...?
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Thanks, Bruce (and Steve for your separate message). Mine is Core Duo so
I'll have to pass on the upgrade. More reason to squeeze the budget for
a new Mac!

Thanks again,

Don

Bruce Johnson wrote:
>On Mar 14, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Don wrote:

>>I've held off upgrading to Lion as I had hoped for a new Mac this spring... but as that might not happen, I'm wondering if Lion is practical for my 6 year-old iMac maxed out with 2 gigs of RAM. I know that meets the minimum memory requirement, but I wonder how well it functions... any experiences, thoughts, warnings?

>If your iMac maxes out at 2 Gigs it may not work with Lion anyway; check System Profiler. If yours is a Core Duo (versus Core 2 Duo) iMac, Lion won't install, because your iMac doesn't support a 64-bit OS.

>Yes, this means that one system rev past the first Intel-only version, Apple started obsoleting the first Intel-based Macs. ON the other hand the original Core Duo Macs can best be described as the 'Yikes' of Intel Macs...they needed to go on sale, Intel wan't yet shipping the C2D, so Apple used what they could get at the time.


 
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