I can't upgrade Lion but I have Intel Core 2Duo

I can't upgrade Lion and I have Intel Core 2Duo, but not Core i3

There are various 3rd party shops that will sell upgrade kits and instructions. It depends on how courageous you are with a soldering iron (the cpu is soldered to the motherboard).
There are also some hacks which will trick your Mac into thinking you have a Core 2 Duo so you can upgrade. I don't know how fast it will run if you do that. But I used a trick like that with my old MacBook to upgrade once when I wanted to upgrade and my actual specs didn't allow it and it worked fine.
I think trying that would be easier than upgrading the actual cpu.
doug

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