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 really appreciate the thought you have all put in for us.

Best wishes,
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
>
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