Comments on: Can my Mac run OS X Lion?

By: Mac Deals: OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD, $19.99 - FairerPlatform

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By: Kelsey Jenney

Kelsey Jenney — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:06:57 +0000

Your information is very useful. Thank you very much.

By: Is my Mac iCloud compatible? | FairerPlatform

Is my Mac iCloud compatible? | FairerPlatform — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:43:10 +0000

[...] First and foremost, Snow Leopard (10.6) alone isn’t enough. According to Apple’s iCloud Setup Page, you must be running OS X Lion 10.7.2 or later, which requires a Mac with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor or better. [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 06:41:34 +0000

”
Julian said:
Lion’s working fine on an iMac 5,1 2006″

Thanks – that’s exactly what I have, Upgraded to 4GB so Lion should b e fine.

By: Can my Mac run OS X Mountain Lion? | FairerPlatform

Can my Mac run OS X Mountain Lion? | FairerPlatform — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:11:07 +0000

[...] X 10.6 Snow Leopard dropped support for PowerPC Macs and OS X 10.7 Lion dropped the Rosetta PPC emulation environment, as well as the earliest Core Solo and Core Duo Intel [...]

By: Julian

Julian — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:53:04 +0000

Lion’s working fine on an iMac 5,1 2006

By: Gh0st

Gh0st — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:44:56 +0000

That’s probably because your hardware is old and if you wan to use airdrop, you need a newer model. Check out the system req’s.

By: albert

albert — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 01:47:24 +0000

I just installed Lion on my imac pro that I bought new in 2007. I cant find airdrop or any of the buttons (such as “versions” “autosave” etc).

By: Gh0st

Gh0st — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:55:51 +0000

Hey guys. Don’t you understand that in order for lion to not be a service pack for tiger or leopard, they have to drop compatability with older machines. Apple has more comparability than ms. Apple supported ppc until tiger and that is way better than ms. If lion didn’t drop compatibility, it would be a service pack of leopard, just like windows 7 is of windows vista. Apple is way ahead of window 7 or ubuntu (whatever version I now), so stop whining about issues with older machines. I am about to install lion on my bros MacBook from 2006, so that should answer some questions. Personally i wouldn’t be surprised if ppc app support was dropped at leopard. I want to see Mac os 10.8 or os 11 beat the $h17 out of windows 8

By: the rocr

the rocr — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 03:52:51 +0000

@ ctaya — Not a supported Mac.

However, there is a way for the motivated:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1107457

By: ctaya

ctaya — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 02:52:10 +0000

I have an old MacBook. The model identifier is MacBook1,1.
Processor INTEL Core Duo
Processor Speed: 1.83 GH
Boot ROM Version: MB11.0061.B03

Please advise whether Lion supports this MacBook.

By: Alfredo Yong

Alfredo Yong — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 22:45:06 +0000

I’ve just upgraded my macmini 2,1 to lion. It had 1 Gb of RAM and was way too slow. Then, I find out howto upgrade RAM. Now I have 3 Gb of RAM, and Lion is running fine. I plan to upgrade to a SSD disk soon to have more speed.

By: the rocr

the rocr — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:33:11 +0000

There’s a tutorial for that: http://fairerplatform.com/2011/07/are-your-apps-lion-compatible-how-to-check/

There’s a list of compatible/ready Lion apps: http://fairerplatform.com/2011/07/going-on-a-lion-hunt-os-x-10-7-ready-apps/

By: Iqtedar

Iqtedar — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:07:55 +0000

Even if your mac can run Lion, beware that Lion may not be able to run some of your installed applications – the PowerPC kind due to abandoning Rosetta. To see a list of PPC applications installed that are dependent on Rosetta, open System Profiler and select the contents category of ‘Applications’ under Software. Then click the ‘kind’ column to organise the list by kind to see all of them together. In my case, if I go ahead and install Lion, my main headache is that I will have to upgrade Dreamweaver MX 2004 and CorelDraw 11, and find a batch converter for all my AppleWorks files. I wish Rosetta was still supported. They could have abandoned it from Mac OS 11 onwards.

By: Bob Barker

Bob Barker — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:14:13 +0000

Thing I’d like to know is are the trackpads on older MacBooks and MBPs able to use all the multitouch gestures that Lion brings?

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:45:39 +0000

hi, im not sure what type of mac i have but its one of the old square white ones, i recently had to reset it back to its factory settings as it locked me out of fire vault. i have gone back to being at 10.4.11. if i download OS X Lion will it work on my laptop?

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:54:47 +0000

Just uploaded lion to my macbook pro. Everything went ok but took my almost 18 hours in total to arrange everything.

Only thing… My microsoft word and exel are not working anymore. It seems that i have to buy the new mac version 2011…

Somebody has an exit on this? I have installed the 2004 version… Yes i know… its old…

By: Matthew Wagner

Matthew Wagner — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:14:36 +0000

I have a Mac Mini that came with a Core Solo processor (Macmini1,1). I have since upgraded the processor to a Core 2 Duo running at 2GHz, 2GB of RAM and upgraded the HD to a 7200RPM model. Unfortunately, the App Store won’t let me install Lion because (I believe) it is looking at the model number of the computer and not the actual processor model.

Does anybody know of a workaround?

By: Mac OS X Lion now on the Mac App Store | FairerPlatform

Mac OS X Lion now on the Mac App Store | FairerPlatform — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:09:35 +0000

[...] order to run OS X Lion, you’ll need Mac with an Intel Core 2 Duo or faster processor. PowerPC, Intel Core Solo and Intel Core Duo Macs are [...]

By: Are your apps Lion compatible? How to check | FairerPlatform

Are your apps Lion compatible? How to check | FairerPlatform — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:03:00 +0000

[...] off, you need to check whether or not your Mac is Lion compatible or not — PowerPC and Intel Core Solo, Core Duo Macs aren’t compatible, whereas all Intel Core 2 [...]