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- Non Intel based I-Mac
Whoever said Macs rarely fail, but when they do its catastrophic! had it exactly right.
My iMac is/was over 6 years old... two years ago the Hd went south, and I put in a new one, but 2 weeks ago the logic board let the smoke escape so the old Motorola base iMac is off to the Computer gods. I checked out the new machines, but finally settled on a Refurbished Core 3i 21.5 that had an upgraded video/memory card.
But now I have a dilemma. When the Hard drive went, I purchased a 1 TB external drive in addition to replacing the internal, so that EVERYTHING would be backed up(including the OS which I think couldn't get past 10.5). I understand that when the new machine arrives, on Power up it will ask if I want to transfer everything from my old iMac. Since the logic board is toast, and it won't boot up connecting the two iMacs won't work. But, I do have the TimeMachine back up on that external drive.
So far so good, however, the new iMac will have the latest greatest OS X version( 10.8.xxx), and I don't want to fall back to the 10.5.8 version that my old iMac
was running under. Is there a prompt on start-up that says "Leave the stinking OS alone?"
I don't think I can find all the DVD's for iWork/iLife yada yadda... I know that I had MicroSoft office suite... Word and Excel were all I ever used, but I also had the Mac versions Pen/numbers etc.
Ok All this to ask, do I need to take both iMacs to Tyson's Corner Apple store and have the wizards of MacGeek make the new iMac look like the old one?
Thanks
KKKKFL
My iMac is/was over 6 years old... two years ago the Hd went south, and I put in a new one, but 2 weeks ago the logic board let the smoke escape so the old Motorola base iMac is off to the Computer gods. I checked out the new machines, but finally settled on a Refurbished Core 3i 21.5 that had an upgraded video/memory card.
But now I have a dilemma. When the Hard drive went, I purchased a 1 TB external drive in addition to replacing the internal, so that EVERYTHING would be backed up(including the OS which I think couldn't get past 10.5). I understand that when the new machine arrives, on Power up it will ask if I want to transfer everything from my old iMac. Since the logic board is toast, and it won't boot up connecting the two iMacs won't work. But, I do have the TimeMachine back up on that external drive.
So far so good, however, the new iMac will have the latest greatest OS X version( 10.8.xxx), and I don't want to fall back to the 10.5.8 version that my old iMac
was running under. Is there a prompt on start-up that says "Leave the stinking OS alone?"
I don't think I can find all the DVD's for iWork/iLife yada yadda... I know that I had MicroSoft office suite... Word and Excel were all I ever used, but I also had the Mac versions Pen/numbers etc.
Ok All this to ask, do I need to take both iMacs to Tyson's Corner Apple store and have the wizards of MacGeek make the new iMac look like the old one?
Thanks
KKKKFL