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Upgrading a iMac G4 ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1360296" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>You can't replace the sound card. I don't know that the CPU can be replaced. If it can, you won't see much in the way of performance gains, especially by today's standards. The max RAM is 1 GB. Macs don't run iOS. They run Mac OS X, and from what I can find out, the last version that iMac can run is OS 10.4 (Tiger). Even if that is incorrect, being PPC hardware means there is absolutely no chance it can run anything newer than 10.5 (Leopard). Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion) can only run on Intel-baed Macs, and even Lion won't run on the very early models of Intel-based Macs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1360296, member: 38864"] You can't replace the sound card. I don't know that the CPU can be replaced. If it can, you won't see much in the way of performance gains, especially by today's standards. The max RAM is 1 GB. Macs don't run iOS. They run Mac OS X, and from what I can find out, the last version that iMac can run is OS 10.4 (Tiger). Even if that is incorrect, being PPC hardware means there is absolutely no chance it can run anything newer than 10.5 (Leopard). Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion) can only run on Intel-baed Macs, and even Lion won't run on the very early models of Intel-based Macs. [/QUOTE]
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