You Core Duo machine is limited to OS-10.7 Lion THAT is because in is 32 bit wide
10.8 Mountain Lion is 64 bit wide. I have a Mid-2007 White MacBook with the same limitations. Apple HAS updated iTunes recently for your machine. You need to max out your RAM at 2GB. 2 1GB 667 DIMMs. I also use a Late 2009 Mac Mini 2.53Ghz. Core 2 Duo 4GB RAM and OS-10.9 Mavericks Late 2008 MacBook AL Unibody 2.0Ghz. Core 2Duo OS-10.9 again... I DO NOT use an iPhone so have no need for compatibility things Found in Yosemite and El Kapitain.... J.C. On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:09 AM, J Janks <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not the Mac user the hubby is but he is NOT tech friendly in the > least. He has a desktop iMac 5.2 (I did find that is produced week 34 of > 2006) that is running OS X Tiger. I found the update log but can't find > it again so based on memory last update was 2010/11 (sound about right??). > I ran updater this morning just to make sure it had been updated and there > were not outstanding updates and there weren't so Mac has stopped > supporting Tiger?? Issue is at start up sometimes it doesn't want to load > anything, it just runs and runs, so you have to reboot usually just once > but a few times now it has taken 2 - 3 reboots. He thinks he needs a new > Mac but I'm thinking just an update to the operating system may be in > order, maybe an optimization/clean up or he just get a non-Mac Windows > based PC. He has NO extra programs that he has installed on it, using > Safari to check email, do some scheduling online and online research for > his dad's coin business is the extent of his computing, seriously. Would > he use it for anything else if it could do it - no, so no need for a new > $1,500 computer IM (humble wife) O if we can update the OS or if there is > something I can optimize or do clean up so it boots right. > > This is the system info: > Intel Core 2 > 1.83 GHZ > only 512MB of memory though > running at 667 MHZ > > I have spent the past 3 hours trying to figure out if I can update this to > at least Snow Leopard and I don't talk tech so partitioning this or that is > not anything I know how to do. I need to know, in non tech terms, if I > buy Snow Leopard can I do a straight install off the disc? I don't think > he has enough memory, doesn't Snow Leopard need at least 1G of memory but > even if I can update to SL what are some complications that could happen? > Fail to install and corrupt the current OS?? I highly doubt he has any > discs from when he bought it, if it even came with any so reinstall of > Tiger is out if it screws up. > > FSF, if I need to increase memory, by time we put money in that and time > installing Snow Leopard (my business gets crazy this time of year so time > is at a premium) he could have bought a Window's based PC for what he does > IM (humble wife) O again. But seriously, I do photography and digitize > designs on a PC so why spend more on one that is not going to be fully > utilized and no, I don't want a new one at the moment, I don't have time > for learning curves or installing/setting up my software on a new one. I'm > just wanting to (hopefully) do a quick install of SL on his machine, > optimize/clean it up so it boots right or just buy him a Windows PC and > tell him to deal with it. Yeah I'm a mean wife. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
