How come MacBook (early 2008) cannot install Mountain Lion?

10.7 which is Lion is supported on a 4,1 black MB. I'm running and typing on it right now.

Thanks to both of you

It agrees with my finding too. I eventually figured the difference between Lion & Mountain Lion which I had though the same + a bit. But Lion still has 32 bit kernel which my black MacBook can handle. MtLion has 64 bit kernel which it can't handle. I got all that from this page!

So, Lion is as far as I can go.

Thanks again whitewater2 & TooDarkPark

Regards

George

Truthfully, there isn't a whole lot that you are missing by not being able to run Mountain Lion, 10.8. I have 10.8 running on my 2010 MB and there just isn't enough features there to feel bad about missing.

Enjoy that black MB, I still love using mine and will continue using it until it dies.

I agree here too. Unless iCloud is something you can't live without, Lion is still great and you will be very happy for some time.

I checked my macbook and it says that i can instal mountain lion
but when i try to update my lion to mountain lion i get this error

can someone else have this issue?

not true, deggie. even the 64 bit early 2008 MacBook cannot accept Mountain Lion.