greetings precious humans,
I have one of those old white iMacs from about 2006 (I think). It's one of
those which used to come with the magnetic remote control which (quite
conveniently) stuck to the side of the machine.
I want to pop either Lion or Mountain Lion on the machine. I've read som
ndard Time except weekends and holidays.
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From: "Dónal Fitzpatrick"
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility"
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 5:36 AM
Subject: putting mountain lion on an old 2006 iMac.
greetings precious humans,
I have one of those old wh
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> Subject: putting mountain lion on an old 2006 iMac.
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> greetings precious humans,
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> I have one of those old w
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Hello Donal
There are ways and means of doing this but first, what's the spec of your
machine? The main problem is firmware. Because Mountain Lion is native 64-
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Hi Gordon,
Your point re. firmware hadn't occurred to me. You might have a point there.
if I'm bored I might try it just for the hell of it but then again, gi
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Hello Dónal and Others,
One place that I check for information about updating older Macs in terms of
hardware and/or operating systems is the Low End Mac site:
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Hi Esther,
It was actually on that site that I found the information. I only came across
it by accident whilst looking for something entirely different. You'
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Hi Dónal
I'd be pretty willing to bet that you'd run up against GFI firmware issues.
There were a lot of machines which were forced into retirement when 10.8 c
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Hi Gordon,
It's actually on 10.6.(something). So it's not even on Lion. I'd be happy
enough with Lion on it actually.
Donal
On 27 Jan 2013, at 16:47, Gordon
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Hi Donal
Wishful thinking I am afraid, although it would probably be easier to hack Lion
than Mountain Lion. A friend of ours actually sent us just that proced
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