This weekend saw the 3rd Developer Preview release of Apple’s long awaited opertaing system OSX 10.7, code named Lion. (Sorry to disappoint those looking for a post by David Attenborough).

We’ve had a lot of customers asking if they’d need to be running new Apple kit to successfully run Lion. Thankfully we can say that there’s no need to panic, as a lot of the older machines will still run the all new whistles and bells operating system.

Happily, the new operating system will run on any Apple computer that is truely 64 bit. Which in Laymen’s terms means that it will run on any machine that has an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and above.

Sadly those of you running a G5 or Intel Core Duo based Apple Mac, will not be able to get into Lion.

For a brief look at what the new developer preview is showing off, have a look at the Macstories.net review.

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