Older Macs incapable of running OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Friday, February 17 2012 @ 21:34 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Bad news for people with Macs from 2007-2008 and older because these machines will not be able to run Apple's upcoming OS X Mountain Lion operating system. Here's the full list of Mac computers that will run OS X Mountain Lion:
  • iMac (mid 2007 or later)
  • MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
  • MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, 2.4/2.2 GHz), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
  • MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
  • Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
  • Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
  • Xserve (Early 2009)
  • And here's a list of Macs incapable of running OS X Mountain Lion:
  • Late 2006 iMacs (iMac5,1, iMac5,2, iMac6,1)
  • All plastic MacBooks that pre-date the aluminum unibody redesign (MacBook2,1, MacBook3,1, MacBook4,1)
  • MacBook Pros released prior to June 2007 (MacBookPro2,1, MacBookPro2,2)
  • The original MacBook Air (MacBookAir1,1)
  • The Mid-2007 Mac mini (Macmini2,1)
  • The original Mac Pro and its 8-core 2007 refresh (MacPro1,1, MacPro2,1)
  • Late 2006 and Early 2008 Xserves (Xserve1,1, Xserve2,1)
  • Source: TUAW


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