Is it possible to upgrade a MacBook late 2007

"Chris

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"Lion is the most current OS you can put on a 2007 white A1181 with a Core 2 Duo processor. You only need 2GB to run Lion. A Core Duo processor will only work with Snow Leopard.

You will not be able to install Mavericks or Mountain Lion, and even if you could get those on the laptop, performance would be an issue."

"I sell Macbook duo cores on Craigslist. Most I load Snow Leopard on with a SSD but I dual boot Windows 10 and or a version of Linux. These machines tend to only have 2gb ram and run better with Windows or Linux then OS X. Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion are no longer supported by Apple. While the hacks can get you to Mavericks or beyond unless its a Macbook Pro I just wouldn't.

Google reFind. Use it and Linux distros like MINT or Ubuntu or Arch and try them out. Take note of CPU and Ram use. Its lower then OS X. If you don't want to go through the hassle of making your Linux install look like OS X use distros like Elementary OS or Zorin or Pear OS. Windows requires extra drivers. Check out the Bootcamp updates or find drivers for sound, etc. on-line. On a budget? These units are around $50.00 on Ebay. A 128 SSD is $40.00 or less. Some have 4gb ram."

If you mean Macbook White late 2007 so you can do upgrade to Lion 10.7.5, but if you want to do some geek trick you can upgrade it to Yosemite as I do. There is many tutorial you'll find on internet how to force upgrade unsupported OS to your MB white. I already try Mountain Lion, Maverick and Yosemite on my MB White late 2007. And yes it is just wasting your time because your hardware won't run optimal on those OS. So stay on Lion or Snow Leopard.

"While Apple only supports up to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion officially on the late 2007 MacBook, using the help of MLPostFactor, you can install up to OS X 10.8.3 Mountain Lion unofficially.

Just beware that there might be some issues due to the incompatibility of newer OS software on officially unsupported hardware.

Now MacPostFactor will allow the installation of OS X 10.8.5 on our older unsupported MacBooks. It can also install 10.9 but without accelerated graphics, so I wouldn't recommend it."