Hi Lynne, This is the same with memory upgrades, and even hard drives. You can't, for instance, swap a non-Apple hard drive into an iMac from 2011, at least not without the right firmware. I accidentally went ahead and got one that didn't have the correct firmware onboard, and the fan just started whirring as loudly as possible and pretty much displaying a blank screen of death. They do the same with memory modules now.
I've never really used Apple-branded RAM, so imagine my surprise this morning when my iMac was unable to boot out of nowhere. I had to dig around in boxes to find the old RAM, and essentially keep all of my other memory sticks that are now a total waste of money. Honestly, I find this a bit much. Machine specific installations, I can understand due to features becoming more advanced. What I cannot understand, though, is why it has to matter what hardware you use. As long as you get the right modules, it shouldn't matter. Apparently, Apple thinks otherwise. Regards, Nicolai On Jun 21, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith <ly...@mac-access.net> wrote: > Hello everybody > > OK; we just tried something here which has left us feeling a little bit > disappointed in Apple's new policies. How far will they go down the road of > control freaking? We decided to try and put one of our new Mac Mini machines > on to Snow Leopard Server. So, we duly connected its superdrive, inserted the > Snow Leopard Server DVD and then power-cycled the machine. Upon successful > POST, we held down the "C" key, in order to have it boot from the DVD. Well, > it tried; but then came up with an incompatibility message. The on-screen > message just said that this OS was too old to boot the machine and it flatly > refused to go any further. So, we then tried to install the server by means > of the installation utility once the machine was booted, and got the same > message. So, it would appear that, although you can boot mid 2011 Mac Minis > from DVD, you cannot boot them from a Snow Leopard DVD. > > This shocked me a little, since there's no earthly reason why Snow Leopard > will not run in this environment. It also means I presume that, if one wanted > to run LINUX on a machine like this, one couldn't do so. This really does > come across as paranoia gone beyond the stage of madness. > > Lynne > > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
