Mac book compatibility

Hi, I am still waiting to upgrade to Mountain Lion but a bit apprehensive. Apart from my iMac I have a Mac Book4,1 which was purchased in March 2009, would any one know is this compatible with Mountain Lion. I have Snow Leopard running on both machines, which are running perfectly well, but feel that I do need to upgrade soon.

No, that is not what Neil said. He said that you cannot go from 10.6 (Snow Leopard) to 10.8 (Mountain Lion), but that you can go to 10.7 (just Lion), but Lion requires a special code to buy because it isn't the newest version.

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