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macbook early 2008 mountain lion?

hello, i was wondering if i can upgrade my macbook to moutain lion when it comes out. i have a black one with 4 gb ram, 2.4ghz duel core cpu and 250 gb hard drive (the best specs you could have on this model). i have 20 gb left on my hard drive and i was reading the tech specs for it and it says that you need to have 2 gb of ram and 8 gbs free on your hard drive, as you can see i have all that but since my macbook is from 2008 does that mean i cant upgrade? because i been holding off getting lion since moutain lion will be out some time this month and it was cheaper. is there any way i can upgrade it even though my model is not listed but have the specs i need?

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Posted on Jul 13, 2012 2:14 PM

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Kappy

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Posted on Jul 13, 2012 2:18 PM

Yes, you should be OK. See:

Apple - OS X Mountain Lion - Read the technical specifications.

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Feahnor

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Jul 27, 2012 1:16 AM in response to Alfista_SK

WRONG. The chipset has nothing to do with it. And it can boot a x64 OS, as i said i have windows 7 x64 installed in bootcamp (and before linux 64) in my macbook early 2008 and it works just fine.

This machine can run mountain lion, is just apple who doesn't want us to run it.

Jul 27, 2012 1:41 AM in response to Feahnor

I have it too in paralels.

When you give the info on app is there written x64? When yes, then you have the capability to work (and boot) in x64 but these MacBooks doesn't (see my post above about the kernel). I have search it over internet, but now isn't possible to boot in x64 on these MacBooks.

Feahnor

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Jul 27, 2012 3:03 AM in response to Alfista_SK

You are getting it wrong. These macs can work in 64 bits. One thing is 64 bit apps, and another is a 64 bit kernel. They support it, but apple is limiting them because of the x3100, as they don't wanna publish the 64 bit driver. This computer is perfectly capable of running 64 bits apps and 64 bits OS, as long as the supplier doesnt limit them.

In fact, the efi of this computer is EFI64, so there.