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After going through the process of buying a low end used MacBook, I thought it might be useful to try to catalogue the minimum hardware features in relation to OS X and its software, at least for Intel hardware.
10.6 Snow Leopard - Intel CPU
10.7 Lion - Core 2 Duo and 2 GB RAM
10.8 Mountain Lion - Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, and GeForce 9400M*
Apple Video Decode Acceleration Framework - GeForce 9400M*, OS X 10.6.3.
OpenCL - GeForce 9400M*
Aperture 3 - Core 2 Duo with OS X 10.7.5 or 10.8.2, 2 GB RAM
Final Cut Pro X - Core 2 Duo with OS X 10.6.8 or 10.7.5 or 10.8.3, 2 GB RAM, GeForce 9400M*. (Note: Minimum 256 MB video RAM required, so GeForce 8600M GT 128MB not supported)
Logic Pro - OS X 10.6.8, 2 GB RAM
iLife '11 - OS X 10.6.3. (Core 2 Duo for GarageBand "Learn To Play" and iMovie AVCHD)
iTunes 10 - OS X 10.5
iTunes 11 - Intel CPU, OS X 10.6.8
iTunes 720p - 2 GHz Core 2 Duo**, iTunes 10, OS X 10.5
iTunes 1080p - 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo**, iTunes 6 (?), OS X 10.5, 2 GB RAM
* Recent Intel integrated graphics chips like Intel HD are supported. X3100 and below (eg. GMA 950) are not.
** Should be fine on slower CPUs if you have an Apple machine which has GeForce 9400M or better.
10.6 Snow Leopard - Intel CPU
10.7 Lion - Core 2 Duo and 2 GB RAM
10.8 Mountain Lion - Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, and GeForce 9400M*
Apple Video Decode Acceleration Framework - GeForce 9400M*, OS X 10.6.3.
OpenCL - GeForce 9400M*
Aperture 3 - Core 2 Duo with OS X 10.7.5 or 10.8.2, 2 GB RAM
Final Cut Pro X - Core 2 Duo with OS X 10.6.8 or 10.7.5 or 10.8.3, 2 GB RAM, GeForce 9400M*. (Note: Minimum 256 MB video RAM required, so GeForce 8600M GT 128MB not supported)
Logic Pro - OS X 10.6.8, 2 GB RAM
iLife '11 - OS X 10.6.3. (Core 2 Duo for GarageBand "Learn To Play" and iMovie AVCHD)
iTunes 10 - OS X 10.5
iTunes 11 - Intel CPU, OS X 10.6.8
iTunes 720p - 2 GHz Core 2 Duo**, iTunes 10, OS X 10.5
iTunes 1080p - 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo**, iTunes 6 (?), OS X 10.5, 2 GB RAM
* Recent Intel integrated graphics chips like Intel HD are supported. X3100 and below (eg. GMA 950) are not.
** Should be fine on slower CPUs if you have an Apple machine which has GeForce 9400M or better.
