Mac Mini 2.1 upgrade

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Aldo1948 Author

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Mac Mini 2.1 upgrade

I have a Mac Mini 2.1(2007) with duo Intel core, 2 GHz and 1 GB RAM. I have obtained upgrade material from OWC, and will now have 4 GB(effectively 3 GB) RAM, and a 240 GB SSD. What I would like to know is:- what is the highest version of OS X that I will be able to run with this profile? Many thanks in advance, for any help.

Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)

Posted on Oct 13, 2015 5:15 AM

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lllaass

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Oct 13, 2015 7:11 AM in response to Aldo1948

Lion is the highest. If you do not have it you can purchase a download code here:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion

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Aldo1948 Author

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Oct 13, 2015 8:39 AM in response to lllaass

thank you🙂

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Aldo1948 Author

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Oct 15, 2015 8:27 AM in response to lllaass

thanks for you help so far - now I need to ask - how do I load Lion? As I understand I can only buy it as an upgrade from 10.6.8, but I will have changed my hard drive, and I think that means a clean installation is required. The only disc that I have is the original 10.4 Tiger install disc(2 discs). How can I get to install 10.7 Lion?

once again, many thanks

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lllaass

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Oct 18, 2015 3:19 PM in response to Aldo1948

You have to purchase the Snow Leopard disk here

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard

Then install and then full update via Software Update to 10.6.8 (the disk is 10,6,3) and then use the Lion download code.

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