Just endorsing Sam here. I have a 2007 iMac on El Capitan which has an SSD put in it by Sam some years ago - maybe 3 years? It has worked perfectly although obviously it won’t install the latest OS.
Phil Tomlinson Sent from my iPad > On 26 May 2018, at 08:35, Sam - MacAmbulance <i...@macambulance.co.uk> wrote: > > I wouldn’t go back to Snow Leopard, most web browsers won’t work and the old > version of safari will render most websites incorrectly if at all. > > Install an ssd then go to El Capitan, it’ll be a perfectly usable Mac > > Sam > > > MacAmbulance Ltd. > Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development > > Sam Mullen > +44 (0)7747778022 > i...@macambulance.co.uk > www.macambulance.co.uk > MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration > number 8466597 > > This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain > privileged or confidential information. > If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete > the email immediately. > > > > On 25 May 2018, at 18:49, mac98aop <adampym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone > > Our ten year old iMac is seriously struggling. It's running Mavericks, > correction, trying to and impossibly slow. > > Before I confine it to a museum, is it possible to somehow restore it with > Snow Leopard? That was a solid OS that I presume it'd run, but we've no > longer got the original disks it came with. > > Any tips? I presume I download something to a thumbdrive, boot from that etc > etc? Any tips gratefully received. Moreoever, if you think it's really not > worth the effort (it's for children's homework in Word and online so perhaps > won't load new websites?) then do say. > > I'm desperately hoping they update the Mac Mini at WWDC as that would be > ideal for their needs. > > Thanks everyone > > Adam > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to smug@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to smug@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to smug+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to smug@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
