Great responses. And since this group is retro-friendly, I shamelessly confess to having kept all my computers and collected many more. I have iMac G3's in every color including Flower Power and Dalmation, a couple of Clamshells and over a dozen iBooks. Including my Powermacs and a few IBM's on the PC side.
The only reason I mention this is because every unit is fully operational, upgraded to the max and except for the oldest units--all networked. Time marches on and staying current is a matter of survival. But there is a place for the old folks, too. And a lot of work left in them. Thanks, too, for mentioning the Mavericks desktop is available on upgrades. I'd rather work to the backdrop of a breathtaking wave than a perilous rock face. jb On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected] > wrote: > > On Sep 26, 2016, at 3:01 PM, Julia Brinckloe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wow, big thanks for the extensive response. And appreciate reminder of the > security issue--which Mac users didn't have prior to the whole intel > partnership. At least it seemed Mac code was better written. > > > Ehhh, it more of a ‘a lot more people are using them’ kind of thing, the > Mac user base is big enough to attract attention, and the bad guys are > becoming a teensy bit less Windows centric; still 99.9% of all the exploits > are for Windows machines. > > FYI my main system is the Mac mini *and* a Dell PC sharing a monitor, > mouse and tablet on a switch. They share peripherals via a home network. I > like your solution--to clone Mavericks on an external drive and upgrade the > main drive. I'd partition my main drive but at 500GB it's not so big these > days. (My first computer was an IBM Headstart PC with no hard drive *at > all--*everything stored on floppies. And my first Mac had a 20 MB HD and > 8 or 16 MB RAM. Technology flies..) > > > Mine was an Apple ][+ with two floppies…good ol’ days! Even my first Mac > (a Plus) only had two floppy drives to start. I remember the day I went to > the local computer store’s clearance event and picked up a staggeringly > huge 30mb SCSI HDD. I would NEVER run out of space with THAT huge thing! > ROFL. Now I carry around a ‘tiny’ 2GB USB thumb drive around in my pocket... > > I'm wondering if I have to install Yosemite before upgrading to El > Capitan. But I'm sure Apple has an FAQ on that. > > > No you do not. You can update directly from OS’es as old as 10.6.8. You > WILL need to find a copy of El Capitan somewhere, because the only one > available from Apple now is Sierra. Apple only ever offers a single version > at a time. Your Mac WILL run macOS Sierra, though, and based on short > experience on my test machine, it’s about the same size/speed/disk > footprint.. > > > I confess I'm most reluctant to part with Mavericks because I live ten > minutes away from the real thing, and seeing it on my desktop, I'm home. > > > > The Mavericks Waves pictures are still part of the built-in desktop pics > in Sierra… > > > Thanks again. You know your stuff. > <='o } > > > Thanks! > > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > -- > 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.
