Mountain Lion may drop support for older Intel Macs

Appleís surprise announcement that its next update to OS X dubbed Mountain Lion will come as soon as this summer, has also yielded an additional surprise. As with the shift from Leopard to Snow Leopard, Apple will cut off users of older Intel Macs from its next-generation OS — for Leopard, IBM PowerPC-based Macs missed out

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Mountain Lion may drop support for older Intel Macs