Re: Upgrade iMac 8.1 Follow Up

On 2024-07-30 20:40:19 +0000, philo said:

On 7/29/24 21:22, philo wrote:

Have to admit I am not familiar with this machine. (or any of the Intel Macs)
 I was given an iMac 8.1 running OSX 10.5.8
 The owner had a 10.6 upgrade DVD but when I try to run it to upgrade, I get a message "will not run on this version."
 Actually, what I really need to do is just upgrade the browser.
 Safari 5 connects to very few websites...I can't even connect to the Apple store
 Any idea where I can get a browser that is better than what I have>
 new version of Firefox will not run
   Also:
 I wanted to empty SOME files from the trash bin NOT all of them
 The ONLY option is to empty the bin>
 I did Google and found two answers
Either hit the command or else the option key
 That gives no option to delete only that file
 Thanks

  She said I could do anything I want so I tried Linux SUSE but CPU is just too slow and the performance was poor
 I looked through the box of software that she gave me and there was a Snow leopard install CD.
 Though it would not allow me to upgrade Leopard, I decided to erase the entire drive and then perform a clean install>
 I then used a 10.8 dmg to further upgrade and next installed Foxfire legacy
 I'll be darned, it actually does a decent job so I think the machine will be good enough . I seriously doubt if she's going to use it form much more than looking at photos>
 So far I installed GIMP and will probably look for some simpler software
 Libre Ofice is next and her printer/scanner installed easily
 It probably would not have worked with Linux anyway
 and I did not like the idea of her having to dual boot with XP which is now gone

That iMac will officially run Mac OS X 10.11.6, which would be better, being three version newer.
Unofficially you could probably install Mac OS X 10.12 (maybe 10.13) using a patcher to fool the installer into thinking it's a newer model - sometiems it works fine, sometimes it can be a bit flakey, just depends on the software you try to run on it and what features they expect but are missing.