App store won't let my buy lion

I have a 2007 MacBook that originally came with 1G (2 cards) RAM.  I have upgraded my system everytime I needed to (most recently to leopard), and when I went to buy Lion on the App store, it said I needed 2G of RAM.  OK, I did all my research and found that I could safely upgrade my RAM to 3G, so I did.  Then I confidently went to the App Store and .... no.  Now it says I need 3.something G to buy Lion.  What is going on???  I have cleaned up my computer, got rid of nearly everything extraneous, and nothing...I can't get it.  Can someone help me?

hunttvillage wrote:
Sorry, OK, I replaced the original 2 cards with (1) 1G and (1) 2G cards (DDR2 PC50300 SO) from Other World Computing.
You added 2-2GB RAM, but can only address 3GB.
The message is:  You need 3.54 GB of available space to download Mac OS X 10.7. Remove items from your startup disk to increase available space.
I have 2.88G available memory.  Sooooo... any takers?
The 3.54 GB is refering to the space on the hard drive, you don't have enough room to download Lion, much less install it.
I see what your problem is, your computer has slowed down substancially because your hard drive was filling up, so you thought if you upgraded to Lion that it will be faster.
Lion will NOT make your machine faster by itself (10.7 is slower than 10.6) and installing on a full hard drive will make your machine even slower!!
Your problem is your hard drive is filled, you need to keep boot drives less than 75% filled and ideally less than 50% for optiminal performance with the operating system and programs all up at the front of the hard drive where data is more responsive and the files etc at the end of the drive.
My advice is you STOP, do NOT install Lion at this time until you have:
1: Made a backup of all your data off the computer to a regular external drive (not TimeMachine) and disconnect.
2: Boot your computer from the 10.6 install disk by holding c and using Disk Utility to erase your boot drive.
3: Reinstall 10.6 fresh, setup with the same username, then update to 10.6.8, then if you wish update to 10.7, (but I advise against it)
If you upgrade to 10.7 your going to have to find all new 10.7 compatible software, including printer and scanner drivers.
Please, do not install 10.7 the way your going, your going to brick your machine, I see it coming and we will not be able to help you as you wil lbe offline.
If you don't know what your doing, please let a experienced Mac specialist assist you.

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