Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #48252, comment 11


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Jul 6, 2015, 8:52:38 AM (9 years ago)
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  • Ticket #48252, comment 11

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    1 Lion requires a 64-bit CPU and drops support for PowerPC apps through Rosetta, so this is why Snow Leopard is a huge boundary and Lion isn't. There's basically no difference in hardware requirements from Lion to Mountain Lion.
     1Lion requires a 64-bit CPU and drops support for PowerPC apps through Rosetta, so this is why Snow Leopard is a huge boundary and Lion isn't. There's very little difference in hardware requirements from Lion to Mountain Lion - just a few very old models with 32-bit EFI that the latter does not support.
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    3 You might be thinking of the fact that Lion still offered a 32-bit *kernel* (for those who still had 32-bit kexts they wanted to run), but it has always required a 64-bit Intel CPU no matter what.
     3You might have been thinking of the fact that Lion still offered a 32-bit *kernel* (for those who still had 32-bit kexts they wanted to run), but it has always required a 64-bit Intel CPU no matter what.