On 01/02/2012, at 5:54 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: You're right John, what I meant was that Leopard is becoming less and less useful to an average user.
And yes, I completely forgot about Snow Leopard, that would also work. -Jonas G'day Kelly As I see it, you need three things. 1. a backup system 2. More memory 3. An updated OS, with perian, flip4mac, & latest Flash driver. Addressing 1. If you can afford it, I would buy one of these… http://www.newertech.com/products/ministack.php Unfortunately the older model seems to have been discontinued, and the new one not yet released. The benefit of them is they are quietly fan cooled (heating can cause a problem in many external cases, as I've found to my detriment), and they automatically turn on and off when your Mac does. Use the Firewire 400 connection. If you shop around you might get an older case, preferably fit it with at least a hard disk as large as your iMac drive, or larger. If you want to upgrade to Lion in the future, and use Time Machine instead of CCC, you should get a drive at least one and a half times larger. Use the free Carbon Copy Cloner, http://www.bombich.com/download.html to back up as frequently as you like. I suggest daily. Personally I've got three ministacks, with TimeMachine hourly backup, and CCC daily and weekly backup. Don't use Western Digital hard drives in the cases; I suggest Seagate or Samsung. Addressing 2. Looks like you'll have to take out at least one of the 512MB sticks, and preferably replace it with a 2 GB stick. I'm in Oz, but I buy my ram from OWC in the States. Addressing 3. You can still buy Snow Leopard from Apple, http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A and provided you've got a fast enough internet link, update to Lion electronically. Do this after you've backed up your old system. -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
