I'm now the "proud" owner of a mid 2007 7 iMac. It has OS Tiger on it. I just wanted to see if anyone thought it would be worth it to put anything into it. It works fine as a computer, even has photoshop and all the adobe applications on it (from around 2010 of course). Everything seems to work fine except for safari. It will somewhat pick and choose what webpages it will load. It will load a select few from my bookmarks and not allow me to google anything. I accidentally deleted firefox off the computer forgetting about this issue, so I can't confirm if this is just a safari issue or an entire computer issue. Unless someone knows of a way to get an old enough web browser onto an external hard drive/flashdrive to put on the computer, that would be helpful. But my main question is if I'd be able to upgrade the OS to run a newer version. If I'm correct, I'd have to buy a cd of the os, right? Any suggestions or opinions on this whole situation would be greatly appreciated. I just thought it would be nice to have as an extra computer to do homework on and what not. Thanks!
iMac Mid 2007, Can I upgrade OS?
- Thread starter madchid22
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Yes...with such an old OS installed (Tiger, OS 10.4)...I'm not surprised at all that you're having the occasional or frequent webpage issue with Safari...since the version of Safari with 10.4 is very very old.
Maximum OS for this computer is 10.11 (El Capitan). Problem is...when Apple comes out with a new version of the OS...the previous version of the OS is removed. And in case you didn't know...OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) was the last OS version that came on disk. Since OS 10.7 (Lion)...the OS versions have been download only (technically 10.7 did come on a USB stick...but very few people purchased it this way). I believe 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 can still be purchased...but even these OS version's are outdated. With OS 10.9 and newer...the OS's were free downloads...but as I mentioned...they are removed when a new version is released.
The most current OS version is "High Sierra" (OS 10.13). As you can see...with OS 10.4 (Tiger) on your iMac...it is WELL behind the newest version of 10.13 (9 OS version's old)!
- Nick
Maximum OS for this computer is 10.11 (El Capitan). Problem is...when Apple comes out with a new version of the OS...the previous version of the OS is removed. And in case you didn't know...OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) was the last OS version that came on disk. Since OS 10.7 (Lion)...the OS versions have been download only (technically 10.7 did come on a USB stick...but very few people purchased it this way). I believe 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 can still be purchased...but even these OS version's are outdated. With OS 10.9 and newer...the OS's were free downloads...but as I mentioned...they are removed when a new version is released.
The most current OS version is "High Sierra" (OS 10.13). As you can see...with OS 10.4 (Tiger) on your iMac...it is WELL behind the newest version of 10.13 (9 OS version's old)!
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How much RAM (memory) do you have in that imac? You can easily upgrade to 4GB which is the absolute minimum for OSX El Capitan that Nick told you about. There is a way with RAM from OWC to up it to 6GB but it's not cheap. Click on the apple in the top left corner of the screen and on About this Mac. Check how much RAM you have and report back.
This mac has 4GB
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