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		Synaesthesia on Feb 24, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple releases dev preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion w... Netkas has confirmed the following about Lion: >Lion requires hardware with a Core 2 Duo processor or better. A lot of apps are sandboxed. OpenGL 3.2 support I'm happy about the OpenGL 3.2 support. But what about 4?

robin_reala on Feb 24, 2011 | [–]

Every Core 2 Duo processor onwards has been 64-bit compatible; any Lion-only software can safely drop the 32bit portion of its binary.

ashleyw on Feb 24, 2011 | [–]

Drat. I wanted Lion on my old cira 2006 MBP with Core Duo. :(

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