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Hey guys, I have an old 17 inch iMac running Snow Leopard, which it runs perfectly with no speed issues. I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Lion, and was wondering if there was a way to bypass the 2GB RAM requirement in the App Store/Installer on my iMac? I've heard you can install on a non-supported processor by deleting a .plist file, but would that work for the RAM as well? Thanks, talonthegeek |
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In all honesty, you should really consider upgrading the RAM in your iMac to at least 2gb. You'll definitely see a good performance boost. RAM really isn't all that expensive right now, and installing fresh sticks in an iMac is fairly straight forward. |
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I don't know of a way to bypass the RAM requirement, but even if you find a way to, Lion will run terribly. I have a MacBook Pro and a MacBook. The Pro handles Lion with ease since it has 4GB of RAM. The MacBook, however, crashes and freezes because it has only 2GB. I'm going to order more RAM for it very soon. 1GB isn't sufficient for any system anymore, especially Lion. |
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I know this is a really old post but I have to put this here... LION runs just fine even with 512MB ram I know it sounds crazy and hangs up a bit but it runs. I had my Macbook2,1 running lion for months with just 1GB of ram I just upgraded it to 1.5GB and while running FreeMemory I have over 500MB free at any given time. I am not a software tech but all I did was take a 2GB stick out of my other Macbook that had DDR2 and let it install with that memory then I just switched back to the 1GB and since I saw that work I decided to try my luck with 512MB ram and you know what? IT WORKED!!! It literally took 7 min to boot up and I saw the color wheel more than I saw the mouse but damn if it didn't boot and run. Next I took a 256MB chip and wouldn't you know it it booted... didn't do much else (never made it past the login screen) but hey thats not what I was trying to do, what I was trying to do was see just how much RAM the OS could run on... I wouldn't recommend running on less than 1GB cuz then it starts to page like crazy and that will kill your hard drive in no time flat (uses hard drive as memory so it keep writing and rewriting to it and thats what will ultimately wear it out, since hard drives have a write limit) not only would it kill your drive its almost unusable in the sence that it take 7 MINUTES TO BOOT UP even 45 seconds to run the WebBrowser. I got a pic I took as proof if you want.: [IMG]http://i818.photobucket.com/albums/zz103/stonecomputers/IMG_0672.jpg[/IMG] http://i818.photobucket.com/albums/zz103/stonecomputers/IMG_0672.jpg |
I wish my macbook(Apple MacBook "Core 2 Duo" 1.83 13" Specs Identifiers: Late 2006 - MA699LL/A - MacBook2,1 - A1181 - 2121) could get Lion but according to everymac.com it says Snow Leopard is the top OS. Apparently everymac updated the info, I can run Lion, now the question is to keep Snow Leopard or upgrade to Lion?
If it's a Core 2 Duo (Not a Core Duo) system with 2GB+ of RAM, Lion will run. It'll run fine with your processor, but I would recommend 4GB of RAM.