On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Amanda Ward wrote:
> > Hi All, > > I finally broke down and bought a new Mac. Okay... all the Macs I've > bought have been new =to me=, but this one is like really new... I'm > owner number one. > > It's the iMac 20" 2.4GHz model. I =really= want the 24" 3.06 GHz, but > do I really NEED it. No prolly not. > I'm a little amazed at the performance increase over my G4/1.6GHz. > Gregory wasn't a slouch, but Irving (the iMac) just screams! > > He has 1GB ram... would increasing to 2GB show a significant > performance boost? I don't do a lot of heavy graphics/video/audio > work... mostly watching movies while working on an occasional > spreadsheet. > > Lastly... can an Intel Mac boot Tiger... and do it from an external > Firewire drive? I ask because I have a few apps that aren't upgraded > for Leopard. On the G4 running 10.5 , I could boot from the external > drive with 10.4 and run them. > > Thanks for any advice.... > > Amanda > Welcome to the Intel iMac Club! Your easiest upgrade is to max out the RAM, which is very inexpensive these days. I recently bought a pair of 2 GB sticks for my mid-2007 iMac 20" 2.4 GHz for about $50, shipped, from OWC. A similar 4 GB upgrade for yours runs about the same. Even at 2 GB, you will notice an improvement, but you'll definitely see it with 4 GB. Generally speaking, a stock Mac cannot boot and run from an OS that predates the one installed at the factory. So you won't be able to boot 10.4 from an external drive and run it on your Intel iMac. And, yes, I really wanted a 24" too, but $ is $. :^) Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
