Mountain Lion Xcode. Coincidentally the mac os x mountain lion download was the last paid upgrade to an os x release. But the cheapest macbook air is about 600 used which has core 2 duo.
This update was released on august 23 2012. Xcode 3 2 6 can also be installed in mountain lion but one very important point is to uncheck system tools when installing. System tools contain kernel extensions for profiling which are incompatible with the mountain lion kernel and will cause the system to panic on startup.
Installing xcode on lion.
There are known issues with xcode 4 4 integraton with intel composer xe 2011 sp1 for mac os x update 11 aka version 12 1 5 344 build. Macbook air d posted on oct 15 2013 4 01 pm. If it is i wonder if it will run. This tutorial will show you how to install xcode on os x mountain lion along with the xcode command line tools.