Agreed, mostly, companies put such requirements on their products to avoid supporting older systems.
KK6ISP Yet another designated driver on the information super highway. On Jan 15, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote: >> On Jan 15, 2015, at 2:33 PM, Al Poulin <alfred.pou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Can’t new external hard drives be formated or otherwise made to work with OS >> X 10.4 Tiger? I do not understand why not. >> >> A user group member wants to buy an external hard drive to back up her old >> iMac with 10.4 Tiger. It seems that models available at the Apple Store, >> Best Buy, and other outlets specify OS X 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard >> or later. This is with models like Seagate Slim and LaCie Porsche, whether >> USB bus powered or with power adaptor. > > I don't think so...any USB drive should work on any USB-capable Mac.These > drives contain (mostly useless) software that may not run under 10.4 but the > drive should function just fine > > -- -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
