Lion will drop support for earliest Intel Macs

You know, if you can't update to 10.7, you might as well destroy your MBP because none of the apps will work anymore, or be any good.

...come off the propaganda, I still use my G3, G4, G5's. It's not the end of the world. However, I also have an office full of Intel Mac-ery, so it's easy for me to say!

If it's really that big of a deal, buy a new Mac with the money you get from selling your old Macs.

Apple is getting too greedy, it's all about iPhone, most updates where iPhone, iLife '11 was not inovating at all, Mac OS X, Apple publicity called the most advanced OS in the World takes like 3 times too boot that Linux Ubuntu, and the same to shut it down, the Open Source Ubuntu seems to have lot better support that Apple gives to them own costumers, Mail app has no good plugins support, and it breaks what exists in every update, while it's truth that being stuck to Mac OS X Snow Leopard doesn't end your computer use, it's also truth that you will have new apps versions and OS versions only compatible with OS X Lion, so much of bug fixes and usefull features won't be compatible, a way to force you to buy a new highly over priced Apple Machine. Even in Mac OS X I more and more use open source software, the only reasone kept me for moving to the free and very fast Ubuntu was the Hard Disk Mac OS X Snow Leop,ard and Ubuntu read/write capabilities, but now on, it will probably be the time to change for a robust, fast, and really long supported OS, Ubuntu!

Well... Windows 7 runs on Pentium 4 faster than the latest iteration of Windows XP (SP3). Catch my drift? Mind you Linux can run on even less. Ha.

I have since long given up on that $%?&* of a company Apple is.

Running Windows 7 on a 2006 iMac Core 2 Duo. And it runs dam fine.

I have a Mac Pro 2006 Desktop. Here are specs. Will this be able to run Lions based upon what we know so far?

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10

F you Apple, you forced me to upgrade to SL for the iPhone 4 and now won't even support my MBP for Lion? What possible reason could there be for this?

I knew there was a reason I waited for the early 2008 Quad-Core Mac Pro ;-)

Irony is that the main reason I got it was so I could run four Windows XP VMs simultaneously (each with 2Gb RAM) under Fusion, and run my 'home' OS X desktop, all on one machine. Have to say, it's been rock solid for that.

I run a 64-bit kernel full time on my iMac. I've had no problems so far.

Bad apple! I bought this thing a year ago used and spent $300 maxing out the specs 2 months ago, and now you take that all away! You make good products, but I swear you hate consumers.

The pain caused by these decisions are a side-effect of why OSX runs better than Windows.

The backwards-compatability Microsoft maintains with Windows is amazing. It is a massive feat of engineering to build a 64-bit OS that will run many 15-20 year-old apps. Every major release of Windows includes new graphics APIs to provide fancy new features, but still tried to make the old ones work. The upside is that a ton of old apps work & old hardware stays supported. The downside is that it takes a complex, bloated mess with over a decade of legacy security holes to accomplish it.

OSX avoids those problems completely. You give up compatability in trade for running a better-engineered system. Both are valid choices, just don't expect to have the things you like about OSX without seeing hardware go unsupported faster than you'd like.

I'm confused. My MBP is described by System Profiler as "MacBookPro5,5" with processor as 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. Is it OK to run Lion?