How to update Apple software on tangerine iMac now at OS X 10.4.11

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:45:59 -0700

Hi, I'm hoping to prepare this machine for some of my grandchildren to use for homework and educational games.

I'm trying to figure the easiest way to update Apple's software on this machine, which has 192 MB of RAM on a 400MHz CPU. I only have a wireless signal at my location, and not a way to connect this machine to the internet via a dial-up telephone-line-based internet connection or account using the iMac's internal 56KB/s modem.

One way might be to hook up my MacBook late 2009 2.26MHz to the iMac via an Ethernet cable, and use the MacBook to connect the iMac to the internet. I don't know if this is a workable approach, and I don't know how to do it.

Or, if I knew what updaters I need for OS 10.4.11, Safari, Mail, iTunes, I would be able to download them to my MacBook, and then copy them to a USB Flash Drive to transfer them to the iMac. Once on the iMac's hard drive I'd then be able to run them.

Of course, I don't know whether a combined updater would be feasible for this task, or individual updaters. I also don't know what order I'd have to follow to install them each properly.







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