Re: Which Mac group? The ALL MACS List!

2021-05-18 Thread Valter Psicof
>I still don't know what people with Macs older than 2012 manage to do >with them. Would someone like to explain? I'm still using an Early 2009 24" iMac. It's going great (although upgraded with 8 GB Ram and 1 TB HD). I have installed OSX 10.9 Mavericks, and most software has a version for it (you

Re: Which Mac group? The ALL MACS List!

2021-05-18 Thread Paul Londoner
Russell, I had lots of advice about buying a MacBook Pro (mid 2012), because it's fairly easy to upgrade. As for where I am, London at the moment. I managed to escape last year to Berlin, but I was forced back thanks to all the COVID-19 restrictions. I was still classed as a tourist and wasn't all

Re: [what to do with a G5 running 10.4]

2021-05-18 Thread Cael Thunderwing
there's RetroArch that'll handle a fair deal of systems depending if you've upgraded the gpu in your G5, as for browsing you can get a more modern browsing experience with TenFourFox but you really need to temper your expectations. grab the big build link from the Macintosh Garden listing, just loo

Re: iMac G5

2021-05-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
You can try TenFourFox: https://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ That gives you an up-to-date browser. On May 18, 2021, at 9:45 AM, R. A. Cantrell mailto:rac...@gmail.com>> wrote: I was gifted an iMac G5 1.8 a few years ago and fiddled with it a while and could not get it to a very serv

Re: [what to do with a G5 running 10.4]

2021-05-18 Thread Josh Juran
On May 18, 2021, at 12:45 PM, R. A. Cantrell wrote: > I was gifted an iMac G5 1.8 a few years ago and fiddled with it a while and > could not get it to a very serviceable situation. Has Safari, has Firefox, > but I get a lot of "could not establish secure connection" and "unsupported > browser

Re: Which Mac group? The ALL MACS List!

2021-05-18 Thread Russell Courtenay
I know this is the iMac group but I appreciate the email discussion and it looks like this is the only email group on Macs that has survived Facebook! I am on Facebook too but wow is it a time waster... I’ve done a lot of research on the older MacBook Pros and I think 2012 is where it’s at. I h

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2021-05-18 Thread R. A. Cantrell
I was gifted an iMac G5 1.8 a few years ago and fiddled with it a while and could not get it to a very serviceable situation. Has Safari, has Firefox, but I get a lot of "could not establish secure connection" and "unsupported browser" responses. I would like to get it sorted out so that I can re-g