Hello, so I was hoping some of you more tech savvy could help me with this. I have a dusty old Mac I'm using, well, trying to use. It's a desktop Mac OS X version 10.5.8 and will not update beyond that point. I had been using it with meager success for a while, but it's gotten to a point where I cannot download any apps and my Chrome app just kicked the bucket because the computer is apparently "too old" to run it anymore. My question is - is there any way to upgrade this computer (software or hardware) that would make it functional again? The tech is fine, it seems to be reasonably powerful, just old.
You don't, basically. Only thing I can think of is to emulate windows on it instead, if that's even possible on a MAC running such old software. Do yourself a favor and get a PC instead.
If it's too old to run anything, best bet is to get something new (or newer). I have a 2009 MacBook that still runs well and it's running Sierra. Basically, MacOS isn't running on anything older than 2009 (very well anyway).
Well, let's see how old it is. From what you've said: * it's a desktop * it won't run anything beyond 10.5.8 * it ran Chrome at some point All versions of Chrome require an Intel processor, therefore, your old Mac can run at the very least OS X 10.6, and at the very least Windows 7 (duh, but if it's really very old, you actually could squeeze more life out of it under Windows than under macOS.) In order to know your upgrade options, I'd like you to do the following: * Open your System Profiler app. That can be found in the Utilities folder, within the Applications folder. * A list will open. The information I'd need is: - Model identifier: something like "iMac4,1" - Processor: (something like "Intel Core 2 Duo") - Memory: (something like "2 GB") If you would kindly post that here, I could evaluate the options for you.
Could you actually upgrade the hardware on the mac? I don't think you can actually upgrade the software pass the hardware recommendations.
Hi there, buying a new PC can also be the option for you. One of my friends also faced this problem and he was newly shifted to the city as recommended by his neighbor, he visited moving company New York city in his town who provided him software services.
You could try to get an external hard drive and buy parellels and get it to run mac and pc software like i do.
Don't. Scrap it and just run Linux if you want a *nix environment. Mac computers completely and totally lack a UEFI BIOS for firmware initialization. Because Apple is grrreeeeeaaaat. -_- So good effing luck running Windows natively. Happy driver hunting.
