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Random talk about a 2007 iMac.

TheRadDad said:
I was able to download a dmg version of El Capitan. App store wouldn't let me download it on my newer mac. My son has UNetbootin. Converts dmg to ISO so I can put it on a thumb drive and boot the old one from the drive. Here's hoping it works. If not, more questions...
BTW thanks for the quick reply.
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[doublepost=1488088783][/doublepost]Well, I sucked it up and ordered the discs from Apple. We'll see what happens when they get here.
 
do you not have a time machine backup?

I have at least one backup from each my macs just in case drive goes or i replace drive.
 
trifona said:
I have mid 2007 C2D iMac with 4GB of RAM. I hated it while it was running Yosemite, but El Capitan brought new life to it. It does everything I need it to, but admittedly it's not much, but probably fine for your mom or for a casual PC user. For me with the 24" monitor it's a perfect media server/client, i file my taxes every year on it, I can run anything on the web with any of Safari / Chrome / Firefox, Youtube, etc. I host an iTunes server on the machine for other clients in the house serving up thousands of audio and video files. Since it has a built in optical drive, I ca burn my music CD's. The kids love watching Netflix on it. Machine is backed up via Time Machine on an external Firewire 800 HDD.

El Capitan is a free download from the app store, I have have had to buy Snow Leopard ( I think) from Apple a few years ago for a nominal upgrade ($20-$40), but after that, every OS upgrade has been free. Machine runs great on El Capitan.
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Thanks for more inspiration. I think the crux of the issue may be that I have to get from Lion to Snow Leopard. I definitely can't just use the App store to do a download to El Capitan from this old machine.
 
Well, I got the disk today, it starts the process, and asks me which drive I want to install it on. I click "2TB Hitachi HD" and it tells me "the drive has a problem that can't be repaired". I guess my next thing is to open it back up and check all my connections? It's a new HD...
 
TheRadDad said:
Well, I got the disk today, it starts the process, and asks me which drive I want to install it on. I click "2TB Hitachi HD" and it tells me "the drive has a problem that can't be repaired". I guess my next thing is to open it back up and check all my connections? It's a new HD...
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Since it's new, erase it and try again. That message suggests an issue with the volume.
 
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My early 2008 Mac and I are growing old together and overcoing some problems successfully on the way. One problem I ccannot solve is faint screen displays whenever the colour blue is involved (they ain't great when black/grey is involved either!). ^s this the price of growing older, or am I overlooking some simple adjustments which would recticy this?

PS Veryh inspiring to see this level of interest in a classic older Mac
 
I called MacSales.com (where I bought HD) and they said to send it back. So, I should get a new one Saturday. I'll let y'all know then.
 
ShikariMR said:
My early 2008 Mac and I are growing old together and overcoing some problems successfully on the way. One problem I ccannot solve is faint screen displays whenever the colour blue is involved (they ain't great when black/grey is involved either!). ^s this the price of growing older, or am I overlooking some simple adjustments which would recticy this?

PS Veryh inspiring to see this level of interest in a classic older Mac
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these imacs do have inverter/psu issues as they age.

maybe you have a backlight or inverter go down?
We got one at work where last owner changed hdd but only reconnect 3 of the 4 inverter cables and was bit dimm.

all oke now reconnected.
 
TheRadDad said:
I called MacSales.com (where I bought HD) and they said to send it back. So, I should get a new one Saturday. I'll let y'all know then.
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Got the new hard drive today and got it in. OS loaded fine and everything seems to be running groovy. Downloading El Capitan so I can run Chrome or Firefox
 
jesus i know this is old ass post but i gonna try...
ok i have a mac late 2009 and i think to upgrade it ram ssd and things but... i think to buy imac 2007 what should i do stay on macbook late 2007 or buy a imac 2007 the imac is 200$ for a 50 70$ i can upgrade my macbook
 
If money is tight for you, then upgrade the MBPro that you have now - unless you are having problems with that one, and would need more than a simple upgrade (internal cleaning, replacing battery, etc)
 
Thanks @DeltaMac today i found a SSD for the macbook is good so i get it cheap and but i still plan to get imac 2007 in the end of the month
Intel Core2 Duo T7300
RAM: 4GB DDR2
Hard Drive: 250GB SATA
this is for a 200$ i think this is a good for a price and upgrade it to 6 gb or ram
 
FerealNight said:
Thanks @DeltaMac today i found a SSD for the macbook is good so i get it cheap and but i still plan to get imac 2007 in the end of the month
Intel Core2 Duo T7300
RAM: 4GB DDR2
Hard Drive: 250GB SATA
this is for a 200$ i think this is a good for a price and upgrade it to 6 gb or ram
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I have 20" 2007 imac.
I upgraded to 6GB ram and fitted SSD.
Also I fitted T9300 CPU.

My machine is faster now but I having failing GPU :(
If find good GPU I will use dosdude software to get high sierra running on it.
 
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