To expand further on Zach's correct infrmation, full system requirements for Snow Leopard, Lion & Mountain Lion can be found at the following places: System Requirements for Lion & Snow Leopard can be found in Apple's KB article HT4949 System Requirements for Mountain Lion can be found on Apple's Mountain Lion Technical Specs page at http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/ Incidentally, Apple specifies a minimum of 2GB RAM for both Lion & Mountain Lion.
Regarding refurbished Macs, the following information is from my own personal experiences dealing with Apple Mac refurbs purchased in the U.S. directly from Apple's U.S. web store. I cannot speak to Macs refurbished by vendors other than Apple, and I do not know if Apple even offers these same refurbs outside of the U.S. I have had excellent experiences with the Macs I've purchased through Apple's own refurb store, which can be accessed here in the U.S. by going to http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals Refurbished Macs purchased from Apple through their own web store come with the same 1 year warranty as their new Macs, and you can also purchase the same Applecare extended warranty at the same price if so desired. The inventory on the website listed above changes daily. Apple usually seems to begin offering refurbs of new models just 3 or 4 months after they've been introduced. Also, if you happen to be a student in the U.S. and you really want to buy a brand new Mac, Apple offers some discounts and incentives to purchase new products through their education store. When I purchased a new Macbook Air some time ago, I received a 100 dollar discount and a 100 dollar App Store credit which I used to purchase ABBYY FineReader, an application that has turned out to be one of my most-used college tools. HTH, Bryan On Jul 7, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Zachary Kline wrote: > I have to correct something here. I do believe Apple supplies you with some > kind of warranty for a refurbished unit, and mountain lion works with many > Macs released before 2011. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
