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Upgrading my old Mac to a new OS - likely problems?
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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1693048" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>Hi Helen</p><p></p><p>Welcome to the Forums. Good to have you with us.</p><p></p><p>The first point to make is that Mavericks is not available to you. (unless you previously owned it, which cannot be so in your case). From Snow Leopard, 10.6.8, you can, for $20, purchase Lion or Mountain Lion, the latter being the better option for sure.</p><p></p><p>Otherwise, it's El Capitan which is a jump of 5 operating systems and, as your research has shown, doesn't seem possible on your machine.</p><p></p><p>So, I'm afraid your options are rather limited.</p><p></p><p>As regards the "technicalities", Mountain Lion comes by post from Apple as a CD. Pop in the CD and it does most of the work. Compatibility with your apps might be a problem.</p><p></p><p>I think if we knew a tad more about your iMac (year, how much RAM, how much storage on the HDD, and how much free space you have left on the HDD), this would help along with what your main uses of the iMac are.</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1693048, member: 83420"] Hi Helen Welcome to the Forums. Good to have you with us. The first point to make is that Mavericks is not available to you. (unless you previously owned it, which cannot be so in your case). From Snow Leopard, 10.6.8, you can, for $20, purchase Lion or Mountain Lion, the latter being the better option for sure. Otherwise, it's El Capitan which is a jump of 5 operating systems and, as your research has shown, doesn't seem possible on your machine. So, I'm afraid your options are rather limited. As regards the "technicalities", Mountain Lion comes by post from Apple as a CD. Pop in the CD and it does most of the work. Compatibility with your apps might be a problem. I think if we knew a tad more about your iMac (year, how much RAM, how much storage on the HDD, and how much free space you have left on the HDD), this would help along with what your main uses of the iMac are. Ian [/QUOTE]
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