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Mountain Lion is the last straw.
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1412531"><p>My 2007 BlackBook was not going to be able to run Mountain Lion and for a variety of other reasons (though I loved it) I decided to move on. One of the biggest reasons was a long-time weakness that had grown progressively worse and worse -- and was PRECISELY why Apple chose not to support my model for Mountain Lion (even if it is technically possible as someone here mentioned).</p><p></p><p>The SUCKY graphics chipset.</p><p></p><p>Now, when I bought the machine in 2007, the sucky graphics chipset was the best graphics system I'd owned to that point, and it was fine for a couple of years. My machine only supported 3GB of RAM max but I did fine with that (but of course I knew better than to buy CS5 or anything crazy like that).</p><p></p><p>Then Google Earth came out. My machine could never run it well.</p><p></p><p>Then 1080p became popular. I could barely run it, and dropped frames like crazy (720p seemed to be its limit).</p><p></p><p>Then the cavalcade of casual-but-graphically-intense games started coming along (like Braid or Cave Story+, stuff along those lines). Flat-out wouldn't run. Final Cut Pro? HAHAHAHA.</p><p></p><p>Over the years, this got worse and worse. And it will keep on getting worse and worse.</p><p></p><p>THAT is why Apple isn't going to support the sucky video chipset (the Intel GMA 950) in Mountain Lion. Not because they don't like you, or gleefully plan to "force" (hahaha) you into buying a new machine.</p><p></p><p>So go ahead, hack your copy of Mountain Lion to make it run on your BlackBook as it was implied is possible. Then try running Google Earth and get back to me on how high-quality your experience is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1412531"] My 2007 BlackBook was not going to be able to run Mountain Lion and for a variety of other reasons (though I loved it) I decided to move on. One of the biggest reasons was a long-time weakness that had grown progressively worse and worse -- and was PRECISELY why Apple chose not to support my model for Mountain Lion (even if it is technically possible as someone here mentioned). The SUCKY graphics chipset. Now, when I bought the machine in 2007, the sucky graphics chipset was the best graphics system I'd owned to that point, and it was fine for a couple of years. My machine only supported 3GB of RAM max but I did fine with that (but of course I knew better than to buy CS5 or anything crazy like that). Then Google Earth came out. My machine could never run it well. Then 1080p became popular. I could barely run it, and dropped frames like crazy (720p seemed to be its limit). Then the cavalcade of casual-but-graphically-intense games started coming along (like Braid or Cave Story+, stuff along those lines). Flat-out wouldn't run. Final Cut Pro? HAHAHAHA. Over the years, this got worse and worse. And it will keep on getting worse and worse. THAT is why Apple isn't going to support the sucky video chipset (the Intel GMA 950) in Mountain Lion. Not because they don't like you, or gleefully plan to "force" (hahaha) you into buying a new machine. So go ahead, hack your copy of Mountain Lion to make it run on your BlackBook as it was implied is possible. Then try running Google Earth and get back to me on how high-quality your experience is. [/QUOTE]
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