14 DAY TRIAL // For those of you planning to get your Mountain Lion on this summer, you’d better make sure you have the brawn to meet the OS’s system requirements.
Although many would have assumed Mountain Lion was going to work on all the machines currently supported by OS X 10.7 (Lion), the system requirements listed by Apple reveal that some Macintosh models, including notebooks, won’t be able to handle the new cat.
Specifically, any Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook shipped between late 2007 and late 2008 (Model Numbers: MB061*/B, MB062*/B, MB063*/B, MB402*/A MB403*/A MB404*/A, MB402*/B) will not run OS X 10.8.
The Mid-2007 Mac mini (Model Numbers: MB138*/A, MB139*/A) is also a no-no, as is the late 2006 polycarbonate iMac (Model Number: MA710xx/A). Finally, OS X 10.8 also doesn’t install on the original MacBook Air (Model Number: MB003LL/A).
(Models numbers via Cultofmac)