Is Lion osx running on my black macbook 2006

back in the 90s I had the very first PowerMac, the 6100 with System 7.x on it. Until Mac OS 8 all was great but when 8.5/8.6 came out I needed to put a Sonnet Crescendo G3 card in it which costed unreal money value.. Anyway that beast made the switch from one PPC cpu to the amazing G3 and those cpu upgrades were quite common on Mac Users. That was until Apple introduced the OS next Generation, our current OS X..
When talk was beginning tin 1999/2000 that Apple has some new OS (X) and that it needs a G3 I was lucky. But how frustrated when I read that it wont run on manually upgraded machines.. so I could not jump in to all things new .
So that is nothing new to long time Apple Users. Some machines do not support the latest OS,simple it was always so.
For Instance Tiger could run on any G3 with USB ports, but Apple decided to make Firewire Ports a neccessary thing . So the installer blocks on say Powerbooks Lombard . They are limited to Panther.
G4 Users with slow cpus can't run Leopard, G5 Users can't run anything after Leo at all..
Concerning Lion I dare to say the following : It is 64bit native and therefore likely does not contain a 32bit legacy kernel ( like it is in SL which has both kernels included and switches them varying on the cpu and ram combination it finds). It likely is also optimized for Multiple CPU cores.
those CPUs that Apple lists as required are all pure 64bit multicores with the latest Extensions and cpu technologies, So Lion must have to do a great deal with 64bit computing.More so then Snow already.
You can test on SnowLeo if your cpu supports 64bit OS if you press 6 +4 keys on boot. In System Profiler under Software you can see if SL is using the 64 kernel.

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