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update OS on MacBook 13" which os is best?

Nov 17, 2011 7:29AM PST

I inherited a<span id="INSERTION_MARKER"> MacBook 1,1 with 2 gigs of ram. Its white 13" display running 10.4.11. whats the latest or the best OS version i can install on it. Its my first Mac so go easy on me with the dumb questions. I have an IPhone 4 and apparently I cant get ICloud on the phone with 10.4.11 or on my XP Windows machine. I wanted to match the IPhone with the MacBook then I find out I can't with 10.4.11...Its always something when you try to go cheep. Happy

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10.5 "might" run on that machine
Nov 17, 2011 9:36AM PST

but I doubt you would be happy with the performance.

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My advice
Nov 17, 2011 9:57AM PST

My advice, which is kind of reading between the lines of the other post: Get a new machine, yours is simply too old.