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- 17 inch 2 GHz C2D imac (5,1) with 3GB DDR2 RAM, X1600 (128MB memory) GPU - OSX 10.6.3
Hi,
Well there's a good and a bad to this story.
The good: I own a imac 333mhz, 265MB of memory. And it runs most apps. I've even got it to run apps that claim to want 400, 500 and sometimes even more mhz. Sure not at the premium performance. But they run and pretty well too. Sure this will all be irrelevant when I get my new imac soon. But since I'm handing down my imac to a friend I want to get 2 issues I have with it sorted.
The bad: The 2 issues. The first is to do with apps. Some of them have inbuilt detectors that tell me no I won't run on your mac, it's to slow. (ie not a minimum number or mhz). Is there a way to get around this so my old machine can run these apps. There's a few I'd like to try out as I think they can run in the old imac.
And the 2nd issue is a strange one. OpenGL related. In OS9 apps requiring OpenGL run just fine. Sure in the program I can only use software rendering. It's actually not using openGL. I doubt the machine has the capability to do so. But the same and other apps in OS X. And it tells me some error that openGL won't work and the app then quits itself.
And lastly would a cd version of OS 10.4 run on this machine? Or is it better to stick with the 10.3.9 which is on it now.
Well there's a good and a bad to this story.
The good: I own a imac 333mhz, 265MB of memory. And it runs most apps. I've even got it to run apps that claim to want 400, 500 and sometimes even more mhz. Sure not at the premium performance. But they run and pretty well too. Sure this will all be irrelevant when I get my new imac soon. But since I'm handing down my imac to a friend I want to get 2 issues I have with it sorted.
The bad: The 2 issues. The first is to do with apps. Some of them have inbuilt detectors that tell me no I won't run on your mac, it's to slow. (ie not a minimum number or mhz). Is there a way to get around this so my old machine can run these apps. There's a few I'd like to try out as I think they can run in the old imac.
And the 2nd issue is a strange one. OpenGL related. In OS9 apps requiring OpenGL run just fine. Sure in the program I can only use software rendering. It's actually not using openGL. I doubt the machine has the capability to do so. But the same and other apps in OS X. And it tells me some error that openGL won't work and the app then quits itself.
And lastly would a cd version of OS 10.4 run on this machine? Or is it better to stick with the 10.3.9 which is on it now.
