Not enough memory to upgrade to Lion?

I want up upgrade to Lion but I'm told I don't have enough space. My computer has at least 50 GB free. What do I do?

Hi, it's referring to Ram Memory, not storage memory.
Click on Apple, About this Mac. If you have less than 2GB memory you may need to purchase more ram.
Before you do, make sure you are running at least Intel Core Duo. You can also find this info under the Apple symbol.
I've had the same problem. Although Apple said initially that Intel Core Duo was all that was needed to run Lion, they forgot to mention the Ram.
Hope this is helpful.

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i've seen a lot of posts under this heading but could not be able to find out regarding my problem
when i am trying to open host vi from a project explorer window , after loading about 8500 dependencies (sorry if use wrong word), its starts giving error "not enough memory to complete this operation"
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