Re: Operating System or New Machine

2011-10-25 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
Thank you again. The screen is now sorted and something I couldn't open, an animated calendar, now opens again. I will take Ray's advice and hold on to the memory stick for a few weeks before asking if anyone would like it. Regards, Jennifer On 22 October 2011 09:51, Daniel Kerr wrote: > One

Re: Operating System or New Machine

2011-10-21 Thread Daniel Kerr
One thing to note with permanent enlargement of the screen. Each monitor has a "default" resolution that it works at - ie the highest. The lower down the resolution you go will notice some "blurriness" sometimes of menu items and fonts. So sometimes it's a matter of finding one that makes it a b

Re: Operating System or New Machine

2011-10-21 Thread Ray Forma
Jennifer, besides Ronda's good advice about increasing the font size in Mail, you can also increase the size of everything on your screen by using the steps below. However, keep in mind that if you increase the size of everything, you will see less of big items, as more of such items will be of

Re: Operating System or New Machine

2011-10-21 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Jennifer, Well done on upgrading the Memory in your computer. Don’t throw the 1GB memory out, you might be able to sell it or give to someone who needs a 1GB stick. You can change the font and size used for mailbox names, the message list, and the body of messages. To modify font settings,

Re: Operating System or New Machine

2011-10-21 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
Just to add to this, is there any use for the discarded 1GB memory stick or does it go to recycled ewaste? Also, by the time I had installed Snow Leopard, updated software etc. icons, dock and fonts on desktop were smaller. I have sorted icons and the dock but email text, menu bar etc are all sti

Operating System or New Machine

2011-10-20 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
Thank you everyone for the very helpful advice. We decided to go for the 4Gb memory and Snow Leopard. I took my courage in both hands and the screwdriver in one of them and put thenew memory in, hoping I wouldn't have to SOS you, Ray. Thank you very much for your offer. I still can't believe I

Re: operating system or new machine

2011-10-14 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
Thank you all very much for the generous information, suggestions and the offers of help. I will now go over it carefully as a lot of the information contains unfamiliar terminology which I need to understand. Then I should be in a position to sort out which option is the most suitable for us. I

Re: operating system or new machine

2011-10-14 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Jennifer Has Ronni has mentioned, yes you have the options to do it. Just to add on,.. 1. Upgrading the memory and to Snow Leopard (10.6.8) would probably be your cheapest option and still keep your machine going for another year or two (at least). Bump up the memory to at least 2GB or even b

Re: operating system or new machine

2011-10-14 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Jennifer, I did not see a reply from Ray to the mailing list. My reply to you via the WAMUG Mailing list was: /Quote: "To be able to install Snow Leopard you require: A Mac computer with an Intel processor 1GB of memory (but I would recommend at least 2-3GB Memory) To be able to install Lion

Re: operating system or new machine

2011-10-14 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
Thank you, Ray, for your help. I am not quite sure what you mean about memory apart from the 1GB of memory (as in Apple Menu) - which I understand is the working memory - and the 152 GB of "space' which i understand is the memory still available for "storage". My 'understanding' is very imperfect

Re: operating system or new machine

2011-10-14 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Jennifer, As Merv has indicated below, you have not had any replies probably because you have not given us enough information to be able to help you. To be able to install Snow Leopard you require: Mac computer with an Intel processor 1GB of memory (but I would recommend at least 2-3GB Memor

Re: operating system or new machine

2011-10-14 Thread Merv Bond
A little more info please, Jennifer. What sort of Mac have you got? A power Mac or an intel Mac, a Mac mini ...? Merv On Fri14Oct2011 Fri14Oct2:17 PM, Jennifer Lefroy wrote: > I would be grateful for some advice. We use our computer mainly for word > processing, email, iphotos, itunes (audio boo

operating system or new machine

2011-10-13 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
I would be grateful for some advice. We use our computer mainly for word processing, email, iphotos, itunes (audio books and podcasting), ical diary and downloading information from the internet. My games are limited to solitaire and who knows, one day I may expand to scrabble and backgammon:-)