OS 10.5

2011-07-26 Thread John Callahan
I would like to purchase Mac OS 10.5 for my iMac Intel Duo currently running OS 10.4.11. Where can I purchase one and what would be a good price to pay? What should I beware of in the way of copies and scams? I have two GB's of memory and a one terra byte hard drive with a lot of free

Re: OS 10.5

2011-07-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 26, 2011, at 11:41 AM, John Callahan wrote: I would like to purchase Mac OS 10.5 for my iMac Intel Duo currently running OS 10.4.11. Where can I purchase one and what would be a good price to pay? What should I beware of in the way of copies and scams? I have two GB's of memory and

eMac problems

2011-07-26 Thread Gorka L Martinez Mezo
A couple weeks ago I bought a second hand eMac (1GHz ATI graphics) at a local store. I currently runs Os 10.3.9 and came with only 128Mb of RAM and a expired PRAM battery. I bought two 512Mb sticks and a fresh battery from OWC and now runs much better. I also purchased an AirPort Extreme

Re: eMac problems

2011-07-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 26, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Gorka L Martinez Mezo wrote: * Panther is pretty obsolete now. I own an original retail Tiger installation disk, but when I try to install it it asks me for the admin password. I have no idea of what the password is and the store have no idea either. Boot from

Re: eMac problems

2011-07-26 Thread Jim Scott
On Jul 26, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Gorka L Martinez Mezo wrote: A couple weeks ago I bought a second hand eMac (1GHz ATI graphics) at a local store. I currently runs Os 10.3.9 and came with only 128Mb of RAM and a expired PRAM battery. I bought two 512Mb sticks and a fresh battery from OWC and

Re: eMac problems

2011-07-26 Thread Gorka L Martinez Mezo
Thanks a lot for your quick answers! I tried booting from the DVD while keeping C and option down but without luck. When booting with option down, the DVD drive (it`s a combo one) doesn`t recognize the boot DVD. Same with booting with C pressed, it doesn`t boot from the DVD. It`s an old one,

Re: eMac problems

2011-07-26 Thread Jim Scott
On Jul 26, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Gorka L Martinez Mezo wrote: Thanks a lot for your quick answers! I tried booting from the DVD while keeping C and option down but without luck. When booting with option down, the DVD drive (it`s a combo one) doesn`t recognize the boot DVD. Same with booting

Re: OS 10.5

2011-07-26 Thread John Martz
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Personally I'd go right on by 10.5 and look for 10.6, at least; if that's a Core Duo system that's the top limit you can get to; and there's not much that wasn't compatible with 10.5 on those that doesn't run

Re: OS 10.5

2011-07-26 Thread JoeTaxpayer
Wow, that's quite the difference, why is SL so much cheaper than Leo? On Jul 26, 6:28 pm, John Martz zjo...@yahoo.com wrote: I believe Bruce failed to mention the price difference. Snow Leopard (10.6) can still be purchased from online retailers for $30 (or less in some cases). Leopard (10.5)

Re: OS 10.5

2011-07-26 Thread Bruce Johnson
SL is in greater supply...it's been almost two years since apple stopped selling 10.5 and about a week since they stopped selling 10.6. On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:30 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: Wow, that's quite the difference, why is SL so much cheaper than Leo? On Jul 26, 6:28 pm, John Martz

Re: OS 10.5

2011-07-26 Thread peterhaas
Wow, that's quite the difference, why is SL so much cheaper than Leo? Apple has revised its MacOS X marketing strategy several times. 10.5 cost way, way more than 10.6. 10.7 non-server cost the same as 10.6 non-server. The 10.7 server option costs only $50, which is about one-fifth the cost

Re: OS 10.5

2011-07-26 Thread irrational John
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: SL is in greater supply...it's been almost two years since apple stopped selling 10.5 and about a week since they stopped selling 10.6. Yes, there's that. But it is also because Apple has always charged ~$30 for

Moribund G4 iBook - and will the DVD drive fit in my MacBook?

2011-07-26 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
I've been given an iBook G4 to look at. This was apparently working fine then 'died'. It is a 1.2GHz, with 256MB memory, 80GB hd and combo drive. When turned on there is no 'bong', and no illumination of the display (although when I tried it yesterday after removing the battery for 24 hours (saw

Re: Virtual Snow Leopard in Lion?

2011-07-26 Thread dc
On Jul 21, 10:52 am, Rich starrf...@valley.net wrote: I'm pretty annoyed that Apple expects me to replace a lot of apps that have been reliable for years now that they are dropping Rosetta. It's too expensive to consider. I was wondering if a workaround might be to run a virtual copy of Snow

Re: Moribund G4 iBook - and will the DVD drive fit in my MacBook?

2011-07-26 Thread Jim Scott
On Jul 26, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Deiniol ap Deiniol wrote: I've been given an iBook G4 to look at. This was apparently working fine then 'died'. It is a 1.2GHz, with 256MB memory, 80GB hd and combo drive. When turned on there is no 'bong', and no illumination of the display (although when I