Macbook 2.1

I have a 2.1 macbook running 10.5.8 can i Update It to 10.8.3 Mountain Lion Directly ?

Your old MacBook would probably fare better with the Snow Leopard 10.6 DVD
and the download combo update to 10.6.8; then you'd have a bootable system
disc with utilities on it, for other important tasks. The retail disc is about $20 US.
The others do not include an offline boot device, unless you find the rare and
impossible to get retail OS X 10.7. -- also if you have older applications for
Leopard 10.5, and need to use any of them, several may not work in an OS X
above Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
The techie method of upgrading to 10.7 or 10.8 rely on a download of those
OS X versions from the Mac App Store; so if you aren't already using a system
that can get there (Snow Leopard 10.6.8 allows access) you can't do it.
If nothing else, check the RAM installed, and the hard disk drive, then consider
an upgrade to Snow Leopard; and if any hardware upgrade is possible, do that.
Good luck & happy computing!

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