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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1890331" data-attributes="member: 190607">I have, right in front of me as I type this, a 2007 20-inch iMac.&nbsp; So I have a lot of experience with old iMacs.&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite6" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cool:" />&nbsp; My old iMac runs great, with good speed.&nbsp; You can't expand memory beyond 6GB, but I've never even felt the need to expand beyond the OEM 4GB.Specs for yours:[URL unfurl=&quot;false&quot;]http://madeapple.com/imac-20-inch-early-2008/[/URL]You can upgrade as far as Mac OS 10.11: &quot;El Capitan&quot;.&nbsp; However, if you upgrade beyond Mac OS 10.6 &quot;Snow Leopard&quot;, you will lose all of your PowerPC-based software.&nbsp; I've chosen to stick with Snow Leopard for my old iMac, as Snow Leopard was a supremely stable OS.&nbsp; (Of course, I have a lot of legacy software that is PowerPC that was never updated.&nbsp; That's why I maintain this old iMac in my office.)The downside of sticking with Snow Leopard is that Safari is tied to the OS version, and that version of Safari is just about unusable now.&nbsp; The good news is that you can get an older version of Firefox that will run great and which is mostly modern:Firefox (48.0.2) (free)[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/48.0.2/[/URL]was the last version of Firefox that runs under OS X 10.6.&nbsp; It's an excellent choice.&nbsp; You can surf the Web, view YouTube videos, etc. nicely with it.&nbsp; Facebook, however, will not work.&nbsp; I don't know how high you would have to go, as far as upgrading your OS, to get Facebook to work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1890331, member: 190607"] I have, right in front of me as I type this, a 2007 20-inch iMac. So I have a lot of experience with old iMacs. :cool: My old iMac runs great, with good speed. You can't expand memory beyond 6GB, but I've never even felt the need to expand beyond the OEM 4GB. Specs for yours: [URL unfurl="false"]http://madeapple.com/imac-20-inch-early-2008/[/URL] You can upgrade as far as Mac OS 10.11: "El Capitan". However, if you upgrade beyond Mac OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard", you will lose all of your PowerPC-based software. I've chosen to stick with Snow Leopard for my old iMac, as Snow Leopard was a supremely stable OS. (Of course, I have a lot of legacy software that is PowerPC that was never updated. That's why I maintain this old iMac in my office.) The downside of sticking with Snow Leopard is that Safari is tied to the OS version, and that version of Safari is just about unusable now. The good news is that you can get an older version of Firefox that will run great and which is mostly modern: Firefox (48.0.2) (free) [URL unfurl="true"]https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/48.0.2/[/URL] was the last version of Firefox that runs under OS X 10.6. It's an excellent choice. You can surf the Web, view YouTube videos, etc. nicely with it. Facebook, however, will not work. I don't know how high you would have to go, as far as upgrading your OS, to get Facebook to work. [/QUOTE]

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