On Sep 26, 2016, at 3:01 PM, Julia Brinckloe <jmbri...@gmail.com<mailto:jmbri...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Wow, big thanks for the extensive response. And appreciate reminder of the security issue--which Mac users didn't have prior to the whole intel partnership. At least it seemed Mac code was better written. Ehhh, it more of a ‘a lot more people are using them’ kind of thing, the Mac user base is big enough to attract attention, and the bad guys are becoming a teensy bit less Windows centric; still 99.9% of all the exploits are for Windows machines. FYI my main system is the Mac mini and a Dell PC sharing a monitor, mouse and tablet on a switch. They share peripherals via a home network. I like your solution--to clone Mavericks on an external drive and upgrade the main drive. I'd partition my main drive but at 500GB it's not so big these days. (My first computer was an IBM Headstart PC with no hard drive at all--everything stored on floppies. And my first Mac had a 20 MB HD and 8 or 16 MB RAM. Technology flies..) Mine was an Apple ][+ with two floppies…good ol’ days! Even my first Mac (a Plus) only had two floppy drives to start. I remember the day I went to the local computer store’s clearance event and picked up a staggeringly huge 30mb SCSI HDD. I would NEVER run out of space with THAT huge thing! ROFL. Now I carry around a ‘tiny’ 2GB USB thumb drive around in my pocket... I'm wondering if I have to install Yosemite before upgrading to El Capitan. But I'm sure Apple has an FAQ on that. No you do not. You can update directly from OS’es as old as 10.6.8. You WILL need to find a copy of El Capitan somewhere, because the only one available from Apple now is Sierra. Apple only ever offers a single version at a time. Your Mac WILL run macOS Sierra, though, and based on short experience on my test machine, it’s about the same size/speed/disk footprint.. I confess I'm most reluctant to part with Mavericks because I live ten minutes away from the real thing, and seeing it on my desktop, I'm home. The Mavericks Waves pictures are still part of the built-in desktop pics in Sierra… Thanks again. You know your stuff. <='o } Thanks! -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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.
