Am 25.03.2010 um 23.24 schrieb Andrew Merenbach:
On Mar 25, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Rudolf O. Durrer wrote:
Am 25.03.2010 um 20.57 schrieb Andrew Merenbach:
On Mar 25, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Rudolf O. Durrer wrote:
The settings:
MacMini3,1, OSX 10.5.8, Appleworks 6.2.9 ( I know, and older
piece of software)
snip...snip...snip
Hi, Rudolf,
I had not been aware that the handbook delivered with the machine
would have outlined that. I had only been aware, rather, of what I
considered SOP for new computers--upgrade but don't downgrade, as
drivers and other features might not be compatible. Apologies for
the misinformation.
Misinformations happens, Andrew, as you may see from my last posting
in reply to Steve Harley's Mail :-)
But it's in fact not so much a misinformation as it looks like,
because even Apple, in one of their technical documents state you
should always run the computer with the system it is shipped with (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186?viewlocale=en_US
)
Nevertheless the question of which system can run on whhat machine is
before all a hardware question, and the Mini late 2009 model uses the
same hardware as and therefore is nothing more than a quick refresh of
the Mac mini (early 2009 model) with just a faster CPU (well yes, and
a bigger drive and double the RAM), which still shipped with Leo.
Anyhow, when googling the question of downgrading a Mac's system
(especially: Mac Mini), you'll find that this had been already
discussed in different forums (e.g. here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=806843)
and on Ebay, you even can buy late 2009 Mini models with 10.5.8 on
it....
The only way to definitely find out if a system runs on a specific
computer is to insert the respective installer DVD, the system then
detects itself if it can be installed or not... oh, I think I got a
little bit away of my original subject by now.
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