Is upgrade from 10.6.3 to Mountain Lion possible?
I'm thinking about purchasing a used Macbook 2007 (MA895LL/A) 10.6.3 is currently the installed, will I be able to upgrade to Mountain Lion when it is released? How so? Would I have to upgrade to 10.7 first? (New to Macs, from Windows)
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Will having 4GB of RAM instead of the 2GB RAM stock make a difference?
2GB of RAM is 10.7's minimum, others here claim 4GB+ is better. It might be with 10.8 that 8GB is better.
So OS X is bloating up now starting with 10.7 as it's a 64bit OS and no 3.5GB RAM limit like before, so your RAM limit of your older machine now has to be taken into consideration as a performance limitation.
Also 10.6 has Rosetta, you can still run older PPC programs (some you can't get anymore) with 10.6, but not 10.7 and beyond.
Some people have upgraded to 10.7 only to howl in pain as half their software and third party hardware drivers no longer work.
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
BTW, you can put 2 3-GB RAM modules in that machine for 6GB, Apple only says 4GB as that's all they had at that time.
So that's a performance bonus.
Crucial.com, OtherWorldComputing are a couple of good locations to get good quality RAM
Maximum Memory
6.0 GB (Actual) 4.0 GB (Apple)
Memory Slots
2 - 200-pin PC2-5300 (667MHz) DDR2 SO-DIMM
I can tell you not too many happy campers on 10.7, it's rather depressing with it's gray/black backgrounds and not friendly to desktop UI users
Spaces and Exposé is GONE in 10.7 for something called Mission Control which isn't quite as good as you can't see 4 or 16 screens at once like Spaces did.
OS X is turned more like a iPad UI too.
Anyway it takes some getting used too, you might want to employ it on new hardware instead.
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Third-party sources for Snow Leopard are:
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Snow Leopard from eBay
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You can purchase Lion contact Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service. The cost is $19.99 (as it was before) plus tax. It's a download.
Be sure your computer meets the minimum requirements:
Apple - OS X Mountain Lion - Read the technical specifications.
Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion
1. iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
2. MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
3. MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
4. MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
5. Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
6. Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
7. Xserve (Early 2009)
Are my applications compatible?
See App Compatibility Table - RoaringApps - App compatibility and feature support for OS X & iOS.
Am I eligible for the free upgrade?
See Apple - Free OS X Mountain Lion upgrade Program.
For a complete How-To introduction from Apple see Apple - Upgrade your Mac to OS X Mountain Lion.
Model Eligibility for Snow Leopard and Lion.
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3. 5GB of available disk space
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1. Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
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4. 7GB of available space
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http://support.apple.com/kb/SP575
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http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
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