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Apple’s Mac App Store will restrict OS X Mountain Lion downloads to unsupported Macs

“Like OS X Lion, when Mountain Lion launches later this month it will be sold via the Mac App Store,” Karen Haslam reports for Macworld UK.

“However, unlike Lion, which would download even if your Mac didn’t have the spec to support it, it seems that the Mac App Store will assess your Mac’s suitability for the new operating system before it lets you download, and pay, for it, according to 512 Pixels,” Haslam reports. “Mountain Lion has the following specs. It requires OS X 10.6.8 or later, 2GB RAM and 8GB available space.”

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512 Pixels reports, “These machines are the only ones supported:”

• iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
• MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
• MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
• Xserve (Early 2009)
• MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
• Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
• Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)

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