Using a Mac Mini. Want to upgrade Safari?

Want to update my Mac Mini2,1 from OS 10.68 to 10.7 or 10.8. Is this possible and where can I download either one?
My hardware has been upgraded to 3 Gb of RAM and the HD to a 120 GB solid state drive.

No, a Mac Mini 2.1 is limited to Lion (10.7).
Lion can be purchased here: http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion

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== This happened ==
Not sure how often
== not sure ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9

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See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_Firefox#Mac_OS_X

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