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Unfortunately the graphics card is simply not up to the task of running Mountain Lion. I don't necessarily think this is a play for profits, hell the OS is bein

Unfortunately the graphics card is simply not up to the task of running Mountain Lion. I don't necessarily think this is a play for profits, hell the OS is being sold for $19.95 and can be installed up to 5 computers that you own free of charge... Unfortunately there is no way to upgrade the video card in a laptop.

st3fan 14y ago
Personally I think it is an excuse to get people to upgrade. I see absolutely nothing that would require a crazy new video card. (I've been running ML for months) In other words: my terminal windows, browser, text editor and twitter client run just as well as on Lion.
- duaneb 14y ago
  >Personally I think it is an excuse to get people to upgrade. Well of course it is, they're a hardware company. I don't think there's some conspiracy to deprecate 6 years old computers when the shelf life of a computer in the industry is 1-3 years - in other words, I don't think they're being unreasonable.
- msbarnett 14y ago
  > Personally I think it is an excuse to get people to upgrade. I see absolutely nothing that would require a crazy new video card. (I've been running ML for months) The 32-bit Kernel no longer exists/is no longer maintained/was not upgraded for Mountain Lion. The unsupported models have video cards that do not have 64-bit graphics drivers available for them. The 64-bit Mountain Lion kernel is incapable of loading the old 32-bit graphics drivers for these cards. Thus these video cards are literally incapable of supporting Mountain Lion.
- stephen_g 14y ago
  I think they're just standardising on hardware that is capable of OpenGL 3.0 and above. Most of the older Macs that don't support ML are the ones with Intel chips that only support 2.1 if I remember correctly.
Watabou 14y ago
Actually you can install it on any computer that you own. Not just 5. They removed that limitation with Lion.
smackfu 14y ago
Oh, I've owned some Macs whose graphics cards were definitely not up to running the OS that they were running. Turning off the genie effect because it skipped frames? Yep.

st3fan 14y ago

Personally I think it is an excuse to get people to upgrade. I see absolutely nothing that would require a crazy new video card. (I've been running ML for months) In other words: my terminal windows, browser, text editor and twitter client run just as well as on Lion.

duaneb 14y ago
>Personally I think it is an excuse to get people to upgrade. Well of course it is, they're a hardware company. I don't think there's some conspiracy to deprecate 6 years old computers when the shelf life of a computer in the industry is 1-3 years - in other words, I don't think they're being unreasonable.
msbarnett 14y ago
> Personally I think it is an excuse to get people to upgrade. I see absolutely nothing that would require a crazy new video card. (I've been running ML for months) The 32-bit Kernel no longer exists/is no longer maintained/was not upgraded for Mountain Lion. The unsupported models have video cards that do not have 64-bit graphics drivers available for them. The 64-bit Mountain Lion kernel is incapable of loading the old 32-bit graphics drivers for these cards. Thus these video cards are literally incapable of supporting Mountain Lion.
stephen_g 14y ago
I think they're just standardising on hardware that is capable of OpenGL 3.0 and above. Most of the older Macs that don't support ML are the ones with Intel chips that only support 2.1 if I remember correctly.

Watabou 14y ago

Actually you can install it on any computer that you own. Not just 5. They removed that limitation with Lion.

smackfu 14y ago

Oh, I've owned some Macs whose graphics cards were definitely not up to running the OS that they were running. Turning off the genie effect because it skipped frames? Yep.