Apple's next release of OS X "Mountain Lion" is slated for release by the end of this month, with some recent developments suggesting it may be out by as early as next week. If you are thinking about upgrading your Mac to the new operating system, then you might consider reserving some time this weekend to ensuring your system is capable of and prepared for the upgrade.
While for the most part you should be able to download and install the upgrade without any problems, there are a few things you can do to help prevent running into odd problems.
Ensure your Mac meets the requirements As with the move to OS X Lion, this next upgrade has some advancements that will leave out some older Mac hardware. In this case, the requirements primarily revolve around graphics capabilities and support for the system's 64-bit kernel. As we previously reported, Apple has an official list of supported hardware, so if your computer is one of the following systems then, it will not be able to run Mountain Lion:
You can see your system's model number in this field in the system profiler/in... [Read more]
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