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 better still take it to 4GB for not much more. It would have 2x1GB in there now, and they would come out and 2x2GB would go in to give you a total of 4GB. This is relatively cheap (as I did the same for another client recently). It would then run Snow Leopard fine, and work with all the things you have now no problems.
2. Slightly more expensive and a bit more of a "learning curve". Again, you'd need to increase the memory, plus buying the Lion USB stick to install straight from 10.5.8 to Lion. Plus, you'd need to make sure you're not running any software that is PPC based as this won't work under Lion. And, as mention, a bit of a different learning curve from 10.5.x and 10.6.x. 3. Obviously your most expensive option. Certainly a newer computer would be "better and faster" and have everything on it. Plus getting your info from the old machine to the new one and "getting to know Lion". Either option would work, I guess it just comes down to what you want to spend etc, and what features or things are needed/wanted/ or used. And based on what you've mentioned any of the three would do it fine. Hope that info helps. Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh** On 14/10/2011, at 9:23 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > 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 you require: > > Your Mac must have an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon > processor Choose Apple > About This Mac and look at what the Processor line > says. Look for Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon. > Anything else—specifically, “Core Duo” (without the 2) or “Core Solo”—and you > won’t be able to run Lion. > > RAM: Lion requires a minimum of 2 GB of RAM, but the more RAM you have, the > better your Macʼs performance. > I recommend at 8GB RAM to run Lion successfully. > /End Quote: > ----- > So from the information you have now supplied below, your iMac7,1 introduced > August 2007 is an Intel Core 2 Duo. > > Your options are: > You have plenty of Free Hard Drive space on the iMac. > 1. You could install Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 with only 1GB memory, but to run > it successfully I would recommend at least 2-3GB Memory > > 2.Your iMac7,1 is an ‘Intel Core 2 Duo’ capable of installing Lion OS X 10.7, > but to run it successfully you need more memory installed. > > 3. Upgrade your iMac to a newer iMac with a faster processor and more memory. > > Hope this helps you. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard > OS X 10.7 Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > On 14/10/2011, at 8:54 PM, Jennifer Lefroy wrote: > >> 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! >> >> This is the info from 'more info'. >> >> >> Model Name: iMac >> >> Model Identifier: iMac7,1 >> >> Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo >> >> Processor Speed: 2 GHz >> >> Number Of Processors: 1 >> >> Total Number Of Cores: 2 >> >> L2 Cache: 4 MB >> >> Memory: 1 GB >> >> Bus Speed: 800 MHz >> >> Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03 >> >> SMC Version (system): 1.20f4 >> >> I hope this is more complete, >> Thank you. >> Jennifer >> >> >> On 14 October 2011 14:17, Jennifer Lefroy <lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> 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:-) >>> No films or videos. Currently I cannot update Adobe flash and Addobe Air >>> because our operating system does not support the new versions. >>> >>> We have a four year old Mac OS X Version 10.5.8 running Leopard; 1GB >>> Memory. 152 Gb space remaining. >>> >>> Should we update to Snow Leopard/Lion or is it time to update the computer >>> keeping in mind the relatively limited use and no iphone or ipad likely to >>> be acquired? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Jennifer >>> >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
