On Apr 8, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Mark My Word wrote: > Hi to all. A friend of my wife dropped off this old iMac "snow", vintage > 2001, that had been stored for about 8 years. She recently wanted to get > back onto the internet for email, web browsing, some simple games, etc... It > seems the old IE browser and email app are not performing very well with > today's internet. She hopes that the machine can be "brought up to date" > enough to use a more modern web browser that will display content and > features like a modern machine. I'm totally PC literate, but lacking > anything besides casual Mac knowledge. My understanding is that to enable > this machine to run Safari, Mozilla, or a newer IE, it would need to move up > to a version of OS10, rather than the OS9.1 that is installed. Is this true, > and could this machine be updated with a version of OS10? Will the hardware > support and play nice with a version of OS10? Any guidance or help would be > greatly appreciated. > >
OS 10.4 (Tiger) will work very nicely on this machine. I installed it at a school where we had over 200 iMacs including a great many early Snow iMacs. They were the mainstay machines for students and teachers. Safari and Mail worked quite well on them. I don't recall Mozilla being a problem but I only briefly used it on those machines. I don't think I ever installed an IE on them. Tiger is the most recent version that can be readily or practically installed (Leopard, 10.5 CAN be but there is no real advantage) That said, that vintage of Safari will be limited on some (many???) current web sites due to Flash and Java not being up to date. It should work well enough for many sites however. Clark Martin KK6ISP Another Designated Driver on the Information Super Hiway. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
