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Mountain Lion and MacBooks

I have a black aluminum 13 inch MacBook. Will it be able to run Mountain Lion?

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Posted on Jun 7, 2012 9:59 AM

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Jun 7, 2012 10:25 AM in response to Allan Eckert

Yeah, I've read on it this morning, and I can't tell. I have a 4,1, which seems to be one that will not be supported. However, at a few different places they are reporting that MacBooks, aluminum body, black, 2008 machines will support Mountain Lion.


Just wondering because this machine is only 4 yrs old. Didn't think the OS would be out of date that fast.

Jun 7, 2012 10:44 AM in response to jasonsaxon

What they are talking about is the Aluminum Unibody model 5,1 with the black keyboard that looks like the MacBook Pro. That was the first MacBook to use the GeForce 9400M video card. The model 4.1 uses the Intel GMA X3100 video card which is not supported by Mountain Lion.


The X3100 has 144mb of VRAM and the 9400M has 256mb of VRAM.


Here's the specs on the model 4,1 http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/specs/macbook-core-2-duo-2.1-white -13-early-2008-penryn-specs.html

Jun 12, 2012 1:44 PM in response to jasonsaxon

The answer is simply no. It isn't yet supported. By not updating, nothing changes and you lose nothing. You just don't gain the new features supplied by the newest OS. You will still be able to use iTunes, Mail, iCloud, update Pages, etc. The major con is that a few years down the road, your OS will no longer be supported by new applications/updates (for example, Windows dropped support for Windows XP this year).


Please reply for more help.


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Jul 25, 2012 3:21 AM in response to tnethers

Okay, so I just posted a similar question in a different thread. But technically, I moved to iCloud and do not have mail. The mail server is no longer working. I was told I need to wait for mountain lion to come out and then upgrade. However my MacBook is 2007 and therefore can't upgrade to mountain lion. I don't care about the other features of mountain lion. I have snow leopard running on my machine. I just want to be able to send and receive mail.


I have access to other email, but like the mac mail account for family stuff.

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