Can't see airdrop on my mac

can't see airdrop on my mac (its a imac)

I did two complete installs of Lion and AirDrop was missing from the Finder Sidebar both times. I believe the cause is the age of my MAC 24" 32bit Intel computer which was built in late 2007. On my wife's 10/2010 15" MACPRO laptop everything installed perfectly. Obviously Apple did not test their installs on older hardware. Other issues I had to resolve were the old Network Utility version 1.4.5 was not removed and showed up under applications while the new one version 1.5 showed up under Utilities were it belonged (meaning Launchpad had two duplicate apps). The older one was missing the BSD package, but this was not the real issue. I trashed the earlier version. Java had to be installed when the install was done. A glitch occurred with moving files out of a desktop folder. They would snap to the far left upper corner. This was resolved by restarting in safe mode, followed by a second restart when safe mode was complete. And to add insult to injury, 1Password does not load IDs and passwords any longer, but that's another vendor's problem. I filed a bug report on the Apple Developer website. That's all for now. I previously had to remove Sigma Chess, a legacy app that required Rosetta. Lion is not as stable as Snow Leopard was, because Snow Leopard was tested on the older hardware.

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