Not enough memory to upgrade from snow leopard to lion...

So if you want to get to Lion install additional RAM.

Allan

You probably don't!

You need:

Intel Core 2 Duo

2GB MEMORY

Lion System Requirements

• Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
• 2GB of memory
• OS X v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)
• 7GB of available space
• Some features require an Apple ID; terms apply.

Save yourself some cash: stick with Snow Leopard.

daynasf wrote:

I just installed OSX Snow Leopard and tried to upgrade to Lion. Unfortunately I am getting an error message saying that I don't have enough memory!?

Would you mind posting the exact error message, thanks.

daynasf wrote:

I tried to buy from the Mac App Store. "We could not complete your purchase. Mac OSX 10.7 requires at least 2GB of memory"

You can upgrade to 2G (or more) for very little money, I recommend that you do

On the top left bar click on the Apple icon and click "About this mac" It will tell you how much memory you have. Also you can check in Applications > Utilities > System Information and under hardware select memory. Then you will know how much ram you need to get to be able to run Lion. As earlier posters said you need minimum 2GB.

What is it you were hoping to do with iCloud exactly? I have been using MobileMe for awhile and iCloud doesn't really offer an improvements over that service, but even with MobileMe being discontinued there are lots of third party solutions which can probably do what you need iCloud for. DropBox comes to mind.

As to the memory issue in particular: don't confuse memory with storage. Storage is a measure of what your hard drive (or solid state drive) can hold, is probably in the range of 100GB to 1TB, and gets used up by applications and files permenantly unless they are deleted from your computer. Memory refers to your RAM, which is used up temporarily by various applications while they are running, and then later relinquished (if all is operating properly) when the program is quit. From what you've said it sounds like you probably have 1GB of memory and it would cost in the neighborhood of $50 to upgrade to 2GB. This will have the effect of speeding up your computer for many tasks, and will allow you to install Lion.

But if your computer is old enough that it only has 1GB of RAM, and the only thing you want Lion for is iCloud, I would probably just stick with Snow Leopard and look for a third party replacement for iCloud.

daynasf wrote:

I wouldn't care, in fact would have stayed with previous OS except that I was hoping to use iCloud which I'm told only functions with Lion :-(

You still have not specified how much memory you have, posted the error report or mentioned anything about even trying to address your issue. If you don't have enough memory, that is it. You need to install more. Not just for Leopard but for a lot of othere programs around that are very demanding on memory. I would be maxing your computer out on the RAM side, given how cheap it is these days. But as we still don't know how much you have and how much you can install, then there is not much else to tell you.

Good Luck

Good move. Won't just help with Lion install, but should improve your Mac's preformance quite noticably.

Happy computing