Hi Adam, The best thing I have ever done with regard to upgrades is fit an SSD. Always a bit of a job in the iMac I know but worth considering. Obviously it will do nothing for system software updates but a currently sluggish computer gets a new lease of life.
My 2p Steve > On 25 May 2018, at 18:49, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone > > Our ten year old iMac is seriously struggling. It's running Mavericks, > correction, trying to and impossibly slow. > > Before I confine it to a museum, is it possible to somehow restore it with > Snow Leopard? That was a solid OS that I presume it'd run, but we've no > longer got the original disks it came with. > > Any tips? I presume I download something to a thumbdrive, boot from that etc > etc? Any tips gratefully received. Moreoever, if you think it's really not > worth the effort (it's for children's homework in Word and online so perhaps > won't load new websites?) then do say. > > I'm desperately hoping they update the Mac Mini at WWDC as that would be > ideal for their needs. > > Thanks everyone > > Adam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
