On 21/02/2014, at 3:45 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Gary, > > You Mac Pro was Introduced August 2006 - Discontinued Jan. 2008. > The Maximum (supported) OS is Mac OS X 10.7.5 > > I personally would NOT recommend 'hacking' to install Mavericks on an > unsupported machine, especially if it is your work machine... > > Read all the comments on the forums from people who have attempted this. > If you do decide to attempt any of the below 'hacks', make sure you backup > first... have backups which include a bootable backup (& test you can boot > from your backup) of your current system. > I admit I haven't read all the forum comments.
Advice understood and accepted The shiny black thermal tinny ( new mac pro) is looking kinda attractive. ps I suppose there is no other way to have syncing with Snow leopard and iCloud then? chow > Cheers, > Ronni > > > > > > > On 21 Feb 2014, at 2:22 pm, gdorn <gd...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I'm was making progress to install mavericks on macpro 1,1 (2- 2.66) 13 GB >> RAM, ATI Radeon 5770 + Nvidia Gforce 7300 GT- but alas the installer says >> its unsupported. >> >> A search suggest there are workarounds, with instructions on how to do it vi >> a number of ways. >> >> >> http://superuser.com/questions/704751/how-to-upgrade-mac-pro-1-1-from-os-x-10-6-8-to-os-x-10-9-mavericks >> >> >> http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1rsp3q/install_mavericks_on_older_mac_pro_11_21_20062007/ >> >> http://retrocosm.net/2014/01/04/mac-pro-11-and-mavericks/ >> >> http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1685804 >> >> >> Is any of these methods a recommended thing to do, has anyone else (on this >> list) done it ? >> >> are there any dangers to running these hacks to get mavericks to install ? >> >> can I install it on a separate hardisk ( I have 3 installed) >> >> >> thanks for any advice or recommendations >> >> chow >> >> >> gary dorn >> gd...@mac.com > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> gdorn gd...@mac.com
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