If your Mac was made in 2007 or later and has a discrete GPU, you ought to be alright. It's the poor sods with Intel GMA950 who are in real trouble, because 64-bit drivers were never made for it; that means that Lion, which although it was a 64-bit OS could still start a 32-bit kernel, was the last practical release of OS X that could run on that hardware.
As to running Lion on older hardware, unfortunately the performance is horrible with limited amounts of RAM, which means that using Windows or Linux may very well be the only way to recover the hardware. That is, of course, if Lion is maintained at all; otherwise it's obviously going to be a requirement. It's nice to see Apple trying harder to upgrade older hardware, but ultimately they're a hardware company and they really don't care how old your OS is as long as you keep buying new stuff from them every five minutes. Also, as I've said before, I'm not very enthusiastic about Apple's current focus with OS X, which effectively appears to be to attract as much of the iOS-using population as possible. Yes, I know it's good business, but I'm not interested in making Apple more money, I'm interested in being a happy customer. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
