Can a MacBook 2 Ghz core 2 duo be upgraded to Lion?

Can the MacBook 2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo be upgraded to Snow Leopard andLion?

Yes for both, but you likely won't be pleased with the performance of Intel Core 2 Duo's on Lion, I have one myself and just gave up and went back to Snow Leopard, and that was a MacBook Pro!
I also had of the many tens of thousands with the screen blinking issue that Lion causes, Apple won't fix it even though it came under the 4 year "we will take care of it" clause for this model.
Lion is slower than Snow Leopard and won't run your 10.5 based software at all, but Snow Leopard will using Rosetta.
I'd advise getting Lion with a new Mac, not upgrading anything prior Early 2011, just way too many issues.
Lion likes 4GB of RAM for starters, and prefers quad cores, it's slow on 2GB, so your already spending money to get it to work, not to mention all new software on a old machine, hard drive etc.
Snow Leopard is the fastest OS X version Apple has made, it's only $29 upgrade.
Lion is a radical UI change, it will turn your world upside down and likely make you unhappy, since you haven't even upgraded to 10.6, so that tells me your a person not happy with change.
Snow Leopard will give you a speed bonus, add some candy, and nearly all your present software will work, not upset you to much.
When that machine dies, THEN get a new Lion machine is my advice, ease yourself into the new radical OS X method, that way Apple has worked all the bugs out of Lion by then.
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