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Mountain Lion Will No Longer Support Older Graphics Chips

Posted in Mac, News, OS X on 16/02/2012 by Henry Taylor-Gill

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Here’s some bad news for Apple users with older machines: the new release of OS X, Mountain Lion, will no longer support the Intel GMA x3100 chip or the Intel GMA 950, MacGeneration reports.

So if you don’t have either an iMac later than mid-2007, a Mac Pro from at least early 2008 or any computer with a newer graphics chip, it looks like Lion will be the last possible Mac OS you can run.

I for one will have to upgrade as I only have a x1300 chip, and it will be interesting to see what others do who have the same problem. Will they even bother to upgrade the hardware or will they manage with Lion 10.7?

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  • Jutta

    Oh fuck! Where is the dislike button?

  • Play me off keyboard cat

    Greeat, it’s puma again :/ I think OSX is running out of cats

    • https://openid.aol.com/opaque/fd6cdeba-3264-11e1-bc45-000bcdca4d7a ingua2

      naming an OS after cats was a dumb Jobs idea anyways.  

  • Earwig

    Welp, probably the last os upgrade for my old 2007 MBP

  • Cp

    And I just upgraded a MacMini 2006 with a 2.2 ghz Intel Core Duo…

    • https://openid.aol.com/opaque/fd6cdeba-3264-11e1-bc45-000bcdca4d7a ingua2

      doesn’t sound like an upgrade really.

  • jescott418

    If you think about it. This is not only a great way to keep advancing technology by not supporting legacy hardware. But Apple benefits from users having to buy new Apple Mac’s in order to run their latest Operating system. Meanwhile Windows users are running a supported OS Windows XP for a decade without a problem? Talk about two opposite ways of supporting a ecosystem. So basically it boils down to Apple = frequent upgrades, Microsoft = legacy support. This is why Enterprise like Windows. 

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Henry is a student who is a huge Apple fan, and has used their products since day one. He can remember how happy he was when he received the first iPod back in 2001 as a birthday present. He has an international background, having spent most of his life in France but he now lives in the UK. He is also a native French speaker and can also speak Spanish at a decent level. In addition to tech, Henry is an avid sports fan and has his own sports blog.