Elements and Macbook

I have Elements 8 on my macbook and Lightroom 4. I am looking to upgrade to Elements 12 and may get the one with Premire. It says requires multcore intel processor 64 bit  and mine says intel duo processor. I have Mac OS X 10.6.8 but planning on doing upgrade to mountain lion. Hoping someone has the time to tell me if all will run. Also any benefit over buying full versions over upgrades. They are close to same with Black Friday deals.
Mac OS X Version 10.6.8  
Model Name: MacBook
  Model Identifier: MacBook6,1
  Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
  Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
  Number Of Processors: 1
  Total Number Of Cores: 2
  L2 Cache: 3 MB
  Memory: 4 GB
  Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
  Boot ROM Version: MB61.00C8.B00
  SMC Version (system): 1.51f53
Hard Drive Capacity :         249.72 GB (249,715,376,128 Bytes)
Free Space :         184.12 GB (184,116,461,568 Bytes)
Used : 65.6 GB (65,598,914,560 Bytes

Honestly, I'm not sure that 10.8 would run well on your hardware. Before buying PSE 12, I'd make a good clone of your current operating system to an external hard drive using something like SuperDuper, then upgrade to mountain lion and see how you like it before investing in additional software. With a clone you can always easily revert to your old system if you don't like it.
The black friday price for PSE is likely to be available again fairly regularly from now on, from big box stores and online retailers, so I wouldn't let that push you into making these decisions. You may find some hardware compatibility issues, you know, with scanners or printers after upgrading, so give mountain lion a good test drive before committing yourself.
FWIW, 4 GB of ram is not much for newer versions of OS X. My two year old macbook has 16 GB, for example. I had an imac with specs similar to yours and since I must run the latest versions of OS X and PSE, a couple of years ago I found it got fairly unsatisfactory, enough for me to buy a new computer. But try it and see how it works for you.

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