Yesterday, Apple introduced their more unified operating system, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8). This is just seven months after the latest OS X Lion (10.7) was released. OS X Mountain Lion is expected to have more iOS features integrated along with many others. If you are a registered developer with Apple, you can download a demo preview from their site.
Basic Requirements:
- 64-Bit Intel Core 2 Duo processor or better
- Ability to boot into OS X 64-bit kernel
- Advanced GPU chipset
- Internet connection to download and install OS X Mountain Lion 10.8
**To check for 64 bit kernel boot support, open terminal > type uname -a and you will get a response something like the following:
Darwin MacBookAir 11.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 11.2.0: Tue Aug 9 20:54:00 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1699.24.8~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
Look for “x86_64” to verify
Below, you will find Macs that are supported and those that are not supported as of the OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview release.
Macs That Support OS X Mountain Lion 10.8
- MacBook Pro – 13″ from mid 2009 or later, 15″ from late 2007 and newer, 17″ from late 2007 and newer
- MacBook Air – late 2008 and newer
- iMac – models from mid 2007 and newer
- MacBook – 13″ aluminum from 2008, 13″ from 2009 and newer
- Mac Mini – early 2009 and newer
- Mac Pro – early 2008 models and newer
- XServe – early 2009 models and newer
Macs Not Expected To Support OS X Mountain Lion
- Anything with an Intel GMA 950 or x3100 integrated graphics card
- Anything with an ATI Radeon X1600
- MacBook models released prior to 2008
- Mac Mini released prior to 2007
- iMac models released prior to 2007
- Original MacBook Air