Mac book too old for mac store so how do i upgrade to osx lion?

hi guys i have just aquired a mac book pro and my soft ware is too old to even have the mac store so how else do i buy download and install the new operating system osx lion?

Head to the Apple menu > About this Mac > More information and give us the model identifier.
It looks like this "MacBookPro 4,1" also the RAM amount and your OS X version (like OS X 10.4 or 10.5)
From that information we can give you a idea of what or what not to do.
Except in the case of a Mac Pro tower, any Mac with 10.4 or 10.5 is typically too old to run the latest operating systems of 10.7 or 10.8 well, and since 10.9 is coming soon as well to deny even more older machines a OS X upgrade.
However OS X 10.6 is still getting them as 25% of Mac users is on it (not Safari or Java 6, use Firefox instead), so it's possible you may be able to upgrade to that and it allows you to still use the software on the machine, unlike 10.7 or later which won't use the older PPC binaries.
OS X 10.4/10.5 need to upgrade, 10.6.8 ok still

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