I have a friend with a mini ('08-9ish) that Apple Retail Store CSR said it may be too old for the upgrade to Mt. Lion. Not sure why yet, memory and processor correct, room OK on the HD, but App Store will not download and install.
Frank H.
On Oct 24, 2012, at 9:55 PM, Caleb G email@hidden wrote:
Shouldn’t we really be discussing this in the cone of silence? ;D
My late '09 iMac upgraded nicely. Mountain Lion is awesome!
if your iMac is, like mine, the iMac5,1 or MA590LL, then Mactracker will tell you that the maximum OS X that it will run is 10.7.4…
Where you are expected to get that, with Apple’s policy of download only, is another thing.
Personally, I run 10.6.8, and from the restrictive monopolistic approach to software acquisition that Apple are now imposing, most recently with their no optical drive iMac, I’m glad to be out of their rat race.
On another note, if you do have the iMac 5,1 , then it is only a matter of time before you get the endemic vertical screen lines. Luckily, I have a high resolution, 1920x1200, screen replacement, brilliant.
Here is an easy way to test your older Macs. If you have FW 800 get a FW 80 external HD and clone your internal drive to the external drive. Now boot on the external and upgrade. If you like the results you have the definitive answer.
On Oct 25, 2012, at Thursday10:55 PM, PeterH email@hidden wrote:
On 25 Oct 2012, 12:36 am, Dale Josephson wrote:
I have a late 2007 iMac with 4GB RSM running Mountain Lion nicely
Dale Josephson
Yep, mine’s mid 2007 - the earliest model that can handle it, and I upgraded with a lot of trepidation.
Everything runs so much smoother now - surely it’s just not my imagination!