Can Lion be installed on a 2006 plastic body iMac?
My 2006 iMac has a 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, the absolute limit. Can Lion be installed on such a machine, or should I be looking to buy a 2011 iMac? Thanks.
Can it be? Yes, since your system has a Core 2 Duo it should support Lion.
Will you be happy with the peformance of this system running Lion? Probably not, unless you use it for only the lightest of tasks. 3 GB is really not enough if you have multiple browser windows/tabs open, run Microsoft Office, do any photo work, watch videos, or perform any of a variety of other memory-hungry tasks.
This system is also five years old. It is at the end of its service life. Lots of things could go wrong with it at this point, especially under the heavier load Lion will most likely put on it.
If I were you I would wait until I was ready to buy a new system.
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