I have a MacBook 4,1 2.4ghz 4GB of RAM, I'm wondering if its worth it to upgrade to lion for me? It seem that most of the cool news you need a multi touch trackpad. Anyone else upgrade using a 4,1?
Thanks Guys & Gals
Thanks Guys & Gals
I have a MacBook 4,1 2.4ghz 4GB of RAM, I'm wondering if its worth it to upgrade to lion for me? It seem that most of the cool news you need a multi touch trackpad. Anyone else upgrade using a 4,1?
Thanks Guys & Gals
Gestures will not work on the 4,1 model MacBook. The trackpad isn't built to support them. I updated my 4,1 black MacBook and have no problems, just no gestures.
One other thing, 64bit is not supported on this machine either.
Not sure what kind of crack you're on mate, but you can't install Lion on anything less than a Core 2 Duo, which both of our machines have (look it up).
Also, your machine doesn't support multi-gesture, but mine (Early 2008 17" MBP C2D) does. Please don't post incorrect information like this, it confuses people.
Yes, yes, very quick editing, well done.
64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No
So, on your machine, under System Information>Software, it says:
Even though the machine is 64bit? I know the EFI on those models is all 32bit, but I've had Lion running on iMac 5,1 models which also have EFI32, and they run in 64bit kernel mode?
That's really weird.
Yes, that's what I thought as well but as I found out long ago when I installed Windows 7, only the 32bit would install. Installing 64bit gave me the message that my machine was not able to use that version. It is a 4,1 2.4GHZ black MacBook, core 2 duo.
But even the 2,1 has a C2D... so even that should run the 64bit kernel and extensions...?
What do your processes say in Activity Monitor?
I'll post a screen cap if you tell me what to look for.
Under Activity Monitor, under the 'Kind' Column, do your processes say 'Intel' or 'Intel (64 bit)'?
What?!
Have you tried booting with '6' and '4' held down? That forces the 64bit kernel on machines with EFI64.
get yourself a track pad and it should run without issues
I am using the older 2,1 MAcBook and dont notice any issues