Will a 2006 Mac mini support lion ?

[macwantedbad]

Hello, I just purchased a Mac mini and was wondering if it is possible to upgrade to lion from leopard 10.5 . Here are the specs I know 2006 Apple Mac Mini 1.66 Intel Core Duo,512MB RAM,60GB HDD
Thanks in advance this is my first Mac .

 

[Sky Blue]

yes

 

[blevins321]

To be honest, it would work, but it wouldn't work that well. I'd do Snow Leopard instead for a model that old.

 

[macwantedbad]

Thanks, and how would you go about finding and downloading snow leopard

 

[Nermal]

Thanks, and how would you go about finding and downloading snow leopard

Snow Leopard comes on DVD. You can get it from the Apple Store* or probably from a reseller of your choice.

*If you're not in the US then change the "us" part of that URL to your country code (uk, nz, ca, etc).

 

[tom vilsack]

lion needs 2 gigs mem...and i believe snow leopard needs 1 gig mem

 

[pistooli]

Hello, I just purchased a Mac mini and was wondering if it is possible to upgrade to lion from leopard 10.5 . Here are the specs I know 2006 Apple Mac Mini 1.66 Intel Core Duo,512MB RAM,60GB HDD
Thanks in advance this is my first Mac .

My 2006 mac mini runs Lion 10.7.5 just fine. It needs a bit of hacking, though:
- swapped the cpu to a Core2Duo T7200 (64bit cpu)
- upgraded EFI to mac mini 2,1 - now recognizes 4GB memory
- Lion install - PlatformSupport.plist was deleted

After all of the above it runs Lion nicely, GeekBench scores above 3000.

 

[LCD]

Hello, I just purchased a Mac mini and was wondering if it is possible to upgrade to lion from leopard 10.5 . Here are the specs I know 2006 Apple Mac Mini 1.66 Intel Core Duo,512MB RAM,60GB HDD
Thanks in advance this is my first Mac .

The latest my 2006 iMac 1.86GHz Core Duo will run is Snow Leopard. Core Duos are 32-bit processors. Lion requires 64-bit but even the first Core 2 Duos released in 2006 don't qualify.

 

[jchase2057]

My 2006 mac mini runs Lion 10.7.5 just fine. It needs a bit of hacking, though:
- swapped the cpu to a Core2Duo T7200 (64bit cpu)
- upgraded EFI to mac mini 2,1 - now recognizes 4GB memory
- Lion install - PlatformSupport.plist was deleted

After all of the above it runs Lion nicely, GeekBench scores above 3000.

Do that and you'll be fine.