What functions in lion will not work on my macbook i bought in 2008

I bought lion yesterday and I do not know what functions will not work with my MacBook I purchased in 2008

You won't notice the ones that don't work!
Anyhow, based on my 2007 MacBook (which should be similar), and on the assumption that you don't have a multi-touch trackpad (i.e. one that recognises threee fingers or more):
1. AirDrop won't work. You don't have the hardware to run this.
2. Multi-touch swipes (three finger navigation between Spaces, invocation of Mission Control etc) won't work.
3. Automatically disappearing scroll-bars won't work (i.e. they will be permanent)
Pretty much everything else will work as well as it does on other platforms.

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