The new Mac operating system will be available in July this year 2012. Can’t wait for the Mountain Lion update any more? Wait a minute, not all Macs can have the Mountain Lion upgrade.
“Your Mac is too old. You’re stuck with your current OS. Forever.” For Mac OS X Leopard in 2007, anyone who owned a Mac with a processor slower than 867 MHz was stuck with Tiger. In 2009, Snow Leopard made the biggest (and most controversial) shift yet and dropped support for all PowerPC Macs. In 2011, Lion dropped support for Macs that didn’t have 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo processors, which included most of the first-generation Intel Macs. (source: www.tuaw.com)
To upgrade to Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, there are some minimum requirements for your Mac according to some sources. The bad news is that it is dropping some support for some older Macs. Mountain Lion will only run on the following Macs:
- iMac (mid 2007 or later)
- MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, 2.4/2.2 GHz), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
- MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
- Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
- Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
- Xserve (Early 2009)
That’s to say, if you have a Mac involved in the list below, you may be excluded in the Mountain Lion upgrade plan, even if your Mac runs Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (model identifiers in parentheses):
- Late 2006 iMacs (iMac5,1, iMac5,2, iMac6,1)
- All plastic MacBooks that pre-date the aluminum unibody redesign (MacBook2,1, MacBook3,1, MacBook4,1)
- MacBook Pros released prior to June 2007 (MacBookPro2,1, MacBookPro2,2)
- The original MacBook Air (MacBookAir1,1)
- The Mid-2007 Mac mini (Macmini2,1)
- The original Mac Pro and its 8-core 2007 refresh (MacPro1,1, MacPro2,1)
- Late 2006 and Early 2008 Xserves (Xserve1,1, Xserve2,1)
But don’t be too disappointed if you have a Mac mentioned in the second list above, it is not the formal announcement from Apple yet, so maybe there will be some differences. We’ll see.
