This imac will run Mac OS 10 Pantber; It may run Tiger as well. However neither OS will run the newer versions of Flash playerd, so graphics are slow or impossible to load. These programs are readily available from Low end mac and several other stores specializing in older Macs.
Good Luck On 2015-04-08, at 12:03 PM, Mark My Word wrote: > Hi to all. A friend of my wife dropped off this old iMac "snow", vintage > 2001, that had been stored for about 8 years. She recently wanted to get > back onto the internet for email, web browsing, some simple games, etc... It > seems the old IE browser and email app are not performing very well with > today's internet. She hopes that the machine can be "brought up to date" > enough to use a more modern web browser that will display content and > features like a modern machine. I'm totally PC literate, but lacking > anything besides casual Mac knowledge. My understanding is that to enable > this machine to run Safari, Mozilla, or a newer IE, it would need to move up > to a version of OS10, rather than the OS9.1 that is installed. Is this true, > and could this machine be updated with a version of OS10? Will the hardware > support and play nice with a version of OS10? Any guidance or help would be > greatly appreciated. > > -- > -- > 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. -- -- 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.
