2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo/ 2GB ram upgrade ?

Please could someone tell me if I can upgrade my MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo/ 2 GB SDRAM running 10.6.8 to Lion as I need it to run some 2015 software ?
IF I can, what are the dangers I must look for and will my laptop then be even slower than it is now?
Thank you very much,

bruf wrote:
Anyway, you think 2011 is the starting point when searching ?
I apologise for my ignorance and thank you again.
You have no reason to apologize. We all have to start from the beginning in every endeavor.
I too am very happy with my 2006 MBP however with the introduction of HDTV, the 2006 MBP was not up to the task. That resulted in the purchase of the 2010 17" MBP because I needed that capability. Technological change does often require newer and better equipment. As I have alluded to, I still use the 2006 with great pleasure.
I have also purchased a late 2011 17" MBP which I feel is a slightly better machine than the 2010. The 2011 has SATA3 internal interface whereas the 2010 has SATA2. What this means is that the 2011 MBP can utilize the full potential of current SSDs whereas the 2010 cannot. Do not misunderstand, an SSD in a 2010 will still be a significant performance enhancement. Also a 2011 MBP will accept up to 16GB RAM (also at 1600 MHz) whereas the 2010 can only utilize 8GB RAM (the 2010 13' model being an exception). The 2011 MBPs also have slightly better GPUs than the 2010.
On the plus side for the 2010 MBP, it is more energy efficient than the 2011. In other words, longer battery run time.
The 2011 MBP has a quadcore CPU which is not the great advance that some may lead you to believe. It shines only when a given application can utilize the parallel processing that it affords. Though not as critical, do opt for the fastest CPU available if there is a choice.
I like the 17" displays in the newer MBPs (late 2008 and newer) due to the 1980 x 1200 resolution. That is compatible with HDTV. The retina display are nice, but not nice enough to warrant my purchase of a 15" model.
Both my 2010 and late 2011 MBPs will run any applications that a newer MBP will, but perhaps not quite as fast. Neither is obsolete, yet.
Ciao.

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Thunderbolt Bus: iMac, Apple Inc., 22.1
I use my iMac daily for work and it happens from 4-10 times a day depending on what applications i'm using. More if I'm trying to render a video. It is really furstrating and keeps me from doing any work at all, I can't keep working like this but I have no choise. I really can't be without my computer for very long as I use it to do everything and I do not have another. Also I have all my files on the hard drive. I have bought a Seagate external HD to back up my files onto so I can make a genus bar appointment but everytime I run time machine or try to copy any of my files over to the external HD the machine restarts and disrupts the file transfer. So I can't even back up my files which are really important to me. I even had to retype this whole message becuase my imac restarted while I was fulling in this question.
What is worse is that I bought the extra warrenty (Apple Care) which is due to expire sometime in March 2014 I'm unsure of the date. Might have expired already I don't know. So I need to get this fixed ASAP.
Extra information on the machine:
iMac
27-inch, Mid 2011
Processor 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB
Software OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)
Can anyone see from the information I have given about what could be wrong with my machine?
Any help or assistance would be much appriciated.
Thanks,
James

Hi. I am currently having the same issue on my 2011 27" 3.1 GHz i5 with 12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
For the last couple of months I have been experiencing random restarts, power offs and so on. I have already had this escalated and had my machine taken into Apple to run a Hardware test. They redid the newest OSX version in store and ran the AHT for an hour and got no results. The Genius Bar were asked by Apple Canada to run an all night test. According to Apple they ran the test for 4 hours and got nothing. I was then told to take the machine home and run it with just the memory that was original in the machine. I stressed tested the video card with a benchmark tool called Heaven for 2 hours. 90C was the temp and no failure. I did a Terminal "Yes" loop for a couple of hours and no failure on the CPU. I ran the Apple Hardware Test for 11 minutes and this is the result.
I also have a video of what happened after I restarted the test after about a 5 minute cooldown period. 20 minutes into the test the Imac stalled and made 3 long beeps over and over again like an alarm with a long pause between. I took the memory out of the DIMM 0 & 1 slots and replaced them in the 2&3 slots rand the test and got nothing after 2 hours. I put the memory back in the original spot and ran it again and got no results. Apple contacted the "Genius" techs and they informed them that I had fixed the problem and everything should be good now. I was also told to go ahead and transfer back over my Time Machine Backup. Since this all happened I have had the Imac restart 2 times in the last almost 2 weeks and today got this error message
Thu Mar 20 13:25:18 2014
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff80226dbe2e): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80228b3b40, type 13=general protection, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000107b81000, CR3: 0x0000000025449000, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0
RAX: 0xffffff803f364ab0, RBX: 0x00000000000063e0, RCX: 0xffffff8022c50100, RDX: 0x0000000000006300
RSP: 0xffffff81842e3a60, RBP: 0xffffff81842e3aa0, RSI: 0xffffff803db9af08, RDI: 0x000000000000000f
R8: 0x0000000000000804, R9: 0x0000000000000001, R10: 0x00000000000003ff, R11: 0xffffffffffffffff
R12: 0x000000000501a8c0, R13: 0xffffff8022cf2840, R14: 0xdeadbeefdeadbeef, R15: 0x0000000000000804
RFL: 0x0000000000010282, RIP: 0xffffff80228b3b40, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x0000000107b81000, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x1
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff817b495df0 : 0xffffff8022622fa9
0xffffff817b495e70 : 0xffffff80226dbe2e
0xffffff817b496040 : 0xffffff80226f3326
0xffffff817b496060 : 0xffffff80228b3b40
0xffffff81842e3aa0 : 0xffffff80228e7a44
0xffffff81842e3c00 : 0xffffff80228c88c6
0xffffff81842e3c50 : 0xffffff80228c8bc2
0xffffff81842e3e30 : 0xffffff80228b6d2d
0xffffff81842e3e50 : 0xffffff8022852763
0xffffff81842e3e80 : 0xffffff8022834f83
0xffffff81842e3ea0 : 0xffffff802282b20c
0xffffff81842e3f50 : 0xffffff802283207c
0xffffff81842e3fb0 : 0xffffff80226d6ff7
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
13C64
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.1.0: Thu Jan 16 19:40:37 PST 2014; root:xnu-2422.90.20~2/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 9FEA8EDC-B629-3ED2-A1A3-6521A1885953
Kernel slide:     0x0000000022400000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8022600000
System model name: iMac12,2 (Mac-942B59F58194171B)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 44509557372694
last loaded kext at 43534719525427: com.apple.driver.AppleIntelMCEReporter 104 (addr 0xffffff7fa4e64000, size 49152)
last unloaded kext at 43747598346449: com.apple.driver.AppleIntelMCEReporter 104 (addr 0xffffff7fa4e64000, size 32768)
loaded kexts:
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com.orderedbytes.driver.CMUSBDevices 4.4.3
com.apple.filesystems.afpfs 11.1
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com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.5d0
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.2.3f10
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AGPM 100.14.15
com.apple.driver.AppleHWAccess 1
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.60
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 124
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.6.0f1
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.13
com.apple.kext.AMDFramebuffer 1.2.0
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 1.0.0
com.apple.AMDRadeonX3000 1.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltIP 1.1.2
com.apple.kext.AMD6000Controller 1.2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver 2.6.0f1
com.apple.driver.AppleBacklight 170.3.5
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.1.12
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHD3000Graphics 8.2.4
com.apple.driver.AppleSMCPDRC 1.0.0
com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.2.3f10
com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU 2.0.4d1
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.7.0
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB 8.2.4
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.6.6
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCardReader 3.4.1
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com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1
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com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.6.0f1
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Model: iMac12,2, BootROM IM121.0047.B1F, 4 processors, Intel Core i5, 3.1 GHz, 12 GB, SMC 1.72f1
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6970M, AMD Radeon HD 6970M, PCIe, 1024 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x45424A3231554538424655302D444A2D4620
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 2 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x45424A3231554538424655302D444A2D4620
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM1, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x0198, 0x393930353432382D3034332E4130304C4620
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM1, 4 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x0198, 0x393930353432382D3034332E4130304C4620
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x168C, 0x9A), Atheros 9380: 4.0.74.0-P2P
Bluetooth: Version 4.2.3f10 13477, 3 services, 23 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Network Service: Bluetooth PAN, Ethernet, en2
Serial ATA Device: ST31000528AS, 1 TB
Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-STDVDRW GA32N
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: FastTrack Pro
USB Device: USB2.0 Hub
USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader
USB Device: IR Receiver
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: USB Axiom 61
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Thunderbolt Bus: iMac, Apple Inc., 22.1
I would also like to add that The Second High Level tech I spoke to told me to use a program to take an image of what my computer was doing when the fresh install of Mavericks was installed and then again after the Time Machine restore. I sent both and have had no response back. The "Engineers of Apple" would be taking a look at those files. This is what I was told anyway's.
So I would like any advise because Apple hasn't been too helpful. I haven't heard anything back at all. Its been a little while. This seems that it could be an issue. I sat in the store speaking to a gentleman with a brand new iMac 27 inch that was having the same exact issues. I was told his was newer so they were not the same. The owner of the new iMac just rolled his eyes and laughed. James McConville seems to be having the same issue and I have read quite a few others before I saw this post from yesterday.
Help Us Please.

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