You can purchase Lion by contacting Customer Service: Contacting Apple for support and service - this includes international calling numbers. If your Mac is operating at a slow pace, then for that reason alone it is worth the upgrade to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. After you install Snow Leopard you will have to download and install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 to update Snow Leopard to 10.6.8 and give you access to the App Store.
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Mac OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard is an upgrade to the previous version of OS X Leopard.