Hello everyone,
I'm new to the forum, obviously Anyways, I have been toying with
the idea of learning to use a Mac just to see if maybe I would like it more
than PC. Well, this weekend I picked up a Macbook Air from a Pawnshop for
a good deal. The only issue is that I didnt realize that the original user is
setup as admin with a password, so I cant update any of the software!
I dont have the original disk, so I cant reinstall I am able to use it, but
it has isses because it needs the updates. It is a model 1,1 1.6GHZ 2G of
ram and an 80G HD. It also has OS X 10.5.5 installed, but when I run
updates it needs ALOT! of updates and it keeps asking for the admin PW!
How do I solve this problem? My cousin has Leopard disk, so can I use his
disk to format the HD and re-install the OS? Doing some research, I am not
sure now that I got a good Mac model being so old. What I dont understand
is how can it be slow being a Duo core unit? My old 2.9MHZ centrino PC
will run anything I install on it and this Duo core Mac can't even run IMOVIE.?
Anyways, any help would help me. I would normally approach this problem just like a PC, but it being a Mac I thought I'd ask the experts.
Thanks,
Ram68
I'm new to the forum, obviously Anyways, I have been toying with
the idea of learning to use a Mac just to see if maybe I would like it more
than PC. Well, this weekend I picked up a Macbook Air from a Pawnshop for
a good deal. The only issue is that I didnt realize that the original user is
setup as admin with a password, so I cant update any of the software!
I dont have the original disk, so I cant reinstall I am able to use it, but
it has isses because it needs the updates. It is a model 1,1 1.6GHZ 2G of
ram and an 80G HD. It also has OS X 10.5.5 installed, but when I run
updates it needs ALOT! of updates and it keeps asking for the admin PW!
How do I solve this problem? My cousin has Leopard disk, so can I use his
disk to format the HD and re-install the OS? Doing some research, I am not
sure now that I got a good Mac model being so old. What I dont understand
is how can it be slow being a Duo core unit? My old 2.9MHZ centrino PC
will run anything I install on it and this Duo core Mac can't even run IMOVIE.?
Anyways, any help would help me. I would normally approach this problem just like a PC, but it being a Mac I thought I'd ask the experts.
Thanks,
Ram68