Thanks Jonathan. I have a 3 questions more. 1. Can he upgrade the OS with only 2gb of memory and still be able to do stuff? 2. Do you have a 10.6 disk we can borrow? Or where can he get the disk? 3. Will he be able to upgrade without losing data. His machine already backs up to time machine ( I think).
Harry Sent from my iPad > On May 8, 2017, at 10:32 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <li...@fletcherdata.com> wrote: > > Harry, 10.5.8 is like a century and a half ago in computer years. The current > Safari won’t run in 10.5. The newer versions are more secure and have more > features. YouTube has more HTML 5 video, that the older browsers didn’t know > what to do with. Back then you HAD to have Flash, but lately most are getting > away from that. > > That machine will run all the way to El Capitan. I think he’d like it better > if it was upgraded. > > It’ll be a big job, though, because it’ll need to go to 10.6 with a disk or > other installer before he can access the App Store to get El Cap. > > It should be worth it to him. He’ll have way less problems like what you’re > seeing. For a couple more years anyway. It already won’t run Sierra. > > There is one more glaringly obvious option, though: buy a new Mac, and have a > “Genius” move his data for him. Way easier, but, yes, it’ll cost a fistful of > dollars. > > Jonathan > > > > >> On May 8, 2017, at 9:51 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <harr...@me.com> wrote: >> >> I wanted to show him a YouTube video so I typed in Youtube.com in his Safari >> Browser and got this message below. >> >> Yet, he had several YouTube videos bookmarked and when he clicked on one of >> them YouTube worked fine. I was able to search for the video I wanted to >> show him and was able to play it for him. >> >> I don’t understand what’s happening? Do you? >> >> These are the specs for his machine: >> >> My friend has an iMac 8,1, with an intel Core 2 Duo Processor and with a >> 2.66 GHz processor speed. He is running OS 10.5.8. I think he has 2gb of ram >> and doesn’t want to add any because the machine is so old. The date of the >> computer is 2003-2011 with Safari [Version 5.0.6 (5533.22.3). > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > jonat...@fletcherdata.com > > Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group > Next Meeting: 5/23/17 > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
