Does the mba 1st gen able to upgrade to 64 bit snow leopard or soon to realease Lion

Hey i have an original Mba and would like to know if i should or even can upgrade to 64bit Snow leopard or Lion.

For Snow Leopard,
Mac computer with an Intel processor
1GB of memory
5GB of available disk space
DVD drive for installation
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For Lion, all I can find is it should work with a "x86-64 processor (Macs with an Intel Core 2 Duo or later CPU"), which i think includes the description for the original Air.
Time will tell to wait and see.

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