Mountain Lion and MacBooks
I have a black aluminum 13 inch MacBook. Will it be able to run Mountain Lion?
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I have a black aluminum 13 inch MacBook. Will it be able to run Mountain Lion?
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It might if it's the model 5,1. Mountain Lion requires a MacBook (Late 2008 or newer) OS X Mountain Lion no longer supports ATI's Mobility Radeon X1600 or Radeon X1900, Intel's GMA 950 or GMA X3100, or NVIDIA's GeForce 7300 graphics processors.
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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 Didn't think the OS would be out of date that fast.
It's 4,1.
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
What's lost when I can't update to the newest OS? I will still be able to use mail, cal., Cloud, iTunes, update Pages, etc.?
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).
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Will the Macbook white unibody mid 2010 be able to support OSX mountain lion?
Yes any MacBook newer than the Late 2008 model 5,1 will support Mountain Lion.
Thank you 🙂
What about MacBook early 2008 model? According to the Apple website it won't support any model before early 2009.
Can the OS still be installed in some way? Like if we install it using a bootable pen drive or DVD, instead of installing it directly from the app store?
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.
Who told to wait for Mountain Lion?
Sounds like a put off to me.
Mail works for me on both my Mac Pro and MBP on Lion with iCloud.
Allan
I don't have Lion, so I need to get Lion - how is that different than Snow Leopard?
You don't need Lion to get to Mountain Lion. You can get there directly from Snow Leopard as long as your Mac meets the requirements.
Allan
Mountain Lion and MacBooks