Late 2008 Air with ML?

[jafingi]

Hi,

I'm thinking of buying a late 2008 MacBook Air really really cheap. It has a 2GHz processor and 2GB ram.

Do you think it will run ML fine? Or would I be better off using Snow Leopard? I will only use it for simple browsing and some school work (primarily math software).

Thanks in advance.

 

[KPOM]

It is capable of running Mountain Lion, but just barely (as the early 2008 MacBook Air does not). Does it have a hard drive or an SSD? If the latter, you might try giving Mountain Lion a try. Otherwise, Snow Leopard may be a better choice.

I believe the top processor on the late 2008 Air was a 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo. It had the NVIDIA 9400m integrated graphics processor. I had one with an SSD (slow by today's standards, but still better than the hard drive), and it worked well for me for 2 years, but I noticed a big leap in performance even with the late 2010s, and certainly with the newer versions.

 

[brbubba]

How cheap is really really cheap? Price is really the dependent factor here.