Operating system in need of an update!

Hi i need to upgrade my operating system but cant seem to find out what animal is my mac. whats the next one to upgrade to? thanks

If you are using 10.5.8, as your profile suggests, that is Leopard.  You cannot update directly to Lion from Leopard.  The same will be true of Mountain Lion, which is coming out next month.  You will need to update to Snow Leopard, which can be purchased from the Apple Store on disk.  Once you have installed Snow Leopard, you must update it to 10.6.8 to get the App Store application.  Using that, you can purchase and download Lion, or can wait and purchase and download Mountain Lion next month.  The latter would be the cheaper option.
Of course, all this is assuming that your hardware is adequate for the system requirements of all these systems, and that the software that is important to you is compatible with those systems.  You will need to do your homework in that area first.  Do not attempt an upgrade without such research done!  And absolutely do not attempt it without good backups of your system and all your data, so you can easily revert (and not lose your data) if something goes wrong.

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