Lion on an older computer

I have an IMac 7.1 with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Can I run Lion on this machine? If so, what modifications do I need to make, such as a new mouse?

In your iMac 7,1, you can have up to 6GB of memory. Lion requires 2GB, and there have been a number of unhappy campers witih Lion performance, which is usually fixed by going to 4GB. So suggestion would be two 2GB RAM cards for 4GB total. You can install a 4Gb and 2GB card if you want more, but recommend at least 4GB. You'll get a touch more performance out of your system with matched memory cards, too.
I happen to have a magic mouse on my iMac and am pleased with how it works with Lion. However, as bold_seagull said, you don't have to have that or a trackpad.
One last thing ... some people have been surprised to find out that Lion no longer will run PowerPC code, since it doesn't have the Rosetta emulator. In my case, I have a dual boot system, with Snow Leopard on one partition in the event I want to run PowerPC code.

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I cannot recall the DVD player ever being a place to "store" videos - it is simply an app to play videos.
If your machine is new, then iMovie should be included as the "shrunk" version of iLife is included with Lion (iMovie, Garageband, and iPhoto). However, iMovie is not a place to store videos either - it is a video editor. You import your clips and edit them in order to then burn to a DVD or share via a social media site.
Have you considered simply dragging the clips to your folder "Movies"? That would be a great place to just store them (please be aware that videos are usually large files, so keep your hard drive space in mind so you keep a minimum free and available for the OS to operate properly):

I have an older computer and can no longer update. After the latest Apple update I can no longer access my e-mail on my mac. I can view it on my iphone and on icloud. Is there a solution to this problem?

I have an older computer and can no longer update. After the latest Apple update I can no longer access my e-mail on my mac. I can view it on my iphone and on icloud. Is there a solution to this problem?

Apple changed MobileMe to iCloud and then restricted iCloud to 10.7 users only unfortunately
If your machine is a 64 bit processor Intel Mac you can upgrade to 10.7 for $29, however a lot of your 10.5/10.6/Rosetta based software could cease to function, especially third party hardware drivers for printers, fax machines, all-in-ones, scanners etc.
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
Also depending how old the machine is, if it can accept 4GB of RAM (preferred), older video card, may not run 10.7 very well or stable.
My advice is to keep at 10.6.8, get a web based email service that's plaform/hardware neutral, forward your iPhone emails there. Gmail/Yahoo Mail for instance.
When your ready for new hardware and all new software, then buy a new machine.
If your going to go to 10.7 on your present hardware, I advise you clone 10.6.8 to a external drive first, that way you can c boot off the 10.6 disk erase the drive completely (necessary to remove hidden Lion Recovery Partition) and option boot off the 10.6.8 clone and reverse clone.
http://www.bombich.com/get_ready_for_lion.html

I have a Olympus C-3000 and it won't read in the new iphoto. It reads in my old version on my older computer. Is there a driver I need or something else?

I have a Olympus C-3000 and it won't read in the new iphoto. It reads in my old version on my older computer. Is there a driver I need or something else?

Yes, different computers, different OS's, as stated, does not work on any machine except PPC.
Nothing in console logs. Does not show up in USB under system profiler.
Level 1 tech support. "May be this" or "may be that", but all a waste of time unless someone has the actual camera and can independently verify my results.
If it were just a matter of it happening on one machine that would be one thing. The fact that it only does not work on Intel based machines (and thus Snow Leopard and Lion) it is a pretty good indicator that something is missing in the OS.

Is it at all possible to get mountain lion with an older MacBook?

I have a mid-2007 MacBook with upgraded RAM to 4GB and sufficient hard disk space.
The App store won't even let me download Mountain Lion (even though my computer meets the basic specs), and Lion isn't avail. either. WHat other specs does my computer not meet to upgrade to Mountain Lion?? Will I forever be stuck with SnowLeopard? It is really unfair that Apple won't even continue making software patches for people with older machines who can't get the latest OSx upgrade. Not every Apple owner can afford to by a new notebook every 2 years. Stop being so greedy Apple.....

There is a min requirement on the machine itself.
See this link:
http://www.tuaw.com/2012/02/16/mountain-lion-drops-support-for-several-older-mac -models/
If you really want to upgrade away from Snow Leopard, you can call Apple to buy the Lion usb.
In my opinion, the ONLY reason that I upgraded to Lion is the new File Vault (I have a Macbook 2008). If you don't use file vault I don't see a reason to upgrade to Lion because you are not able to use most of the feature that it offers anyway, such Air Drop or Improved mouse touch detection.
I don't think for my Macbook 2008 ( or your Macbook 2007), Lion is that great of an upgrade : )

Connecting an older computer to my wireless router.

My wireless router is connected to my work computer which is in the same room as my own personal computer. I can hard wire the two together since they are only a few feet apart, but my older computer only has a phone line connection. Are there cables with a ethernet plug on one end and a phone line size plug on the other, or what do I have to do to hard wire these together. My older computer, which still works just fine for my personal needs does not have wireless capability so I was hoping somehow I could hard wire this to the router. Any help is much appreciated.
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Also, does the older computer support USB? (Don't laugh; there's a method to the suggestion!) Even if, for some reason, there's no room to mount a wired or wireless network adapter inside the computer, there's nothing stopping you from using a USB network adapter (wired or wireless) to connect to the same computer. Since there are USB wireless network adapters available (wireless-b, wireless-G, and wireless-N, as well as multi-protocol), do give serious consideration to having one or more around (if for no other reason than as spares); I'm looking to pick up one or two such USB adapters for my two-computer all-wired network (the router is a WRT54GS V.2, but may shortly be replaced with a WRT-310N for additional range and wired gigabit support). I've had my GS since 2005, and I'm very happy with it.

I tried to download the the latest itunes on my older computer but ultimately received an error message for a failed temp folder...pls. help

I am trying to download itunes 10 on to my older computer that currently has itunes 8. It works it way through most of the install process but ultimately notes "there was an error creating a temporary file necessary to complete this installation." I just updated my windows (I believe it is XP).
The new icon is now showing on my desktop but won't allow me to open it, saying it wasn't installed correctly and to re-install....which I can't seem to do.
Any insight would be very much appreciated. thanks.

Follow the instructions of tt2 given in: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5822086

I loaded mountain lion and now my computer can't handle video or load iTunes

I loaded mountain lion and now my computer can't handle video or load itunes

4 GB ram
2.4 GH processor
I have 3 topics in the activity monitor running at 9995 Mb real memory
loginwindow = 952 mb
systemUIServer = 950 mb
usereventagent = 940mb
has mountain lion just ate up my ram in operations

Since i have an older computer, i was hoping to download iTune 10.6.3 verison instead of the newest version, can i still do that and if so, how do I?

hello everyone,
I was just wondering if it is possible to download a older version of iTunes instead of the newest one. My reason behind that being is I'm using an older computer that is running on windows, and if I were to download the latest version, not only would it take hours to download on my computer but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't run properly due to my ancient RAM system. so I was hoping somebody out there would know how to do download iTunes 10.6.3 version from apple? the reason I ask for this version is because its the oldest version my iPod can run on. Thank you for taking time to read this ridiculously long paragraph over a simple question..lol and thanks in advance if you have the answer to it as well!

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I have a new Mac Pro computer and have migrated my files from my older computer to the new computer. In trying to open a Lightroom catalog on an external hard drive I keep on getting the message "lightroom cannot use the catalog named " " because it is

I have a new Mac Pro computer and have migrated my files from my older computer to the new computer. In trying to open a Lightroom catalog on an external hard drive I keep on getting the message "lightroom cannot use the catalog named " " because it is not writable and cannot be opened. I have fixed all the "permissions" and yet it will still not open. How do I fix this?

Hello Forum Members,
I figured it out. You have to select the actual logo of the Lightroom catalog and then click on "get info" and allow what ever your new user name to "read and write". That worked!
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TS1474 I synced my iphone to an older computer, and the iphone data was replaced by the old data from the computer. How do I get my newer data back?

I synced my iphone with an older computer to update the computer, but the iphone ended up with all the old data (phone numbers, etc). How do I get the newer data back?

Connect to iTunes on the computer you usually Sync with and Restore...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414

Hello, I use MAC AIR OSX 10.6.8 and have Adobe CS2, that I was using 2 years ago on my older computer. I stopped using it because it would close down in the middle of work. Now I would like to reinstall it on the MacAir but I can not get it working. It te

Hello, I use MAC AIR OSX 10.6.8 and have Adobe CS2, that I was using 2 years ago on my older computer. I stopped using it because it would close down in the middle of work. Now I would like to reinstall it on the MacAir but I can not get it working. It tells Adobe doesnT support my System. But I can not update my old version or activate it. What can I do?

The mac you want to install photoshop cs2 on is running mac os x 10.6.8 Snow Leopard?
(photoshop cs2 won't run on intel macs with mac os x newer than snow leopard)
Did you ever have cs2 installed on this particular computer before?
If the problem is that you already installed cs2, but it won't activate, that's because adobe took the activation servers offline for some older adobe products such as cs2.
You'll need to use the non activation version of cs2 from here and the supplied serial number:
Activation server shut down for Creative Suite 2, Acrobat 7, and Macromedia products

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Lion keep crashing my computer 3 or 4 times a day

Since i download the lion system to my computer it keeps freezing all the time.

Have the same problem. Whenever I leave my computer for some time (say to have lunch) and come back to it, I initially find that the browser I happen to have been using (Chrome of Firefox) does not respond. I find I can access other programs that happen to be open but then they become unresponsive. Eventually the whole computer becomes unresponsive and I have to force quit my MacBook Pro (latest version with 8mb memory).

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this is my opinion. but in this case, you need to install previous OS that has a dvd, which in my case, i installed Snow Leopard first. it cost 30 dollars new.
after you have SL operates and do all software updates, you can download lion and install it over snow leopard.
hope someone here have a better and quicker solution straight to Lion.

Lion on an older computer

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