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blueberry imac g3

  • 06-05-2011 9:30pm
    #1
    Damien King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭


    first post in here hopefully someone can help...
    I picked up an imac a few months back for next to nothing, very good condition and working perfectly. its running os9 and i am curious if i can go up to a more recent os? picked it up with the intention of running a few emulators mame ect. so just need it to work with usb drives joypads etc.
    anyone able to point me in the right direction? not looking for copied disks but dont want to purchase a legit disk if it isnt compatible..which leads me on to the next question, where can you pick up older legit os disks?


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Depends on the exact model and you'll need to make sure you have enough RAM, but it should definitely be able to run the latest version Panther (Mac OS 10.3). I'm not sure about Tiger, I doubt it.

    Have a look on Ebay for the discs. I'd send you my old copy of Panther but I seem to have lost it.


  • #3
    Damien King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 195 ✭✭Damien King


    thanks for that prof, so ebay as good as anywhere i suppose.
    and that is as straightforward as popping the disk in and away i go?


  • #4
    whiterebel
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭whiterebel


    Damien King wrote: »
    thanks for that prof, so ebay as good as anywhere i suppose.
    and that is as straightforward as popping the disk in and away i go?

    iMac compatibility


  • #5
    muggyog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 725 ✭✭✭muggyog


    Don't forget you can only buy system disks in 'full' versions (10.3, 10.4) and update.
    Also don't buy the grey (system specific) disks because they wont install on older Macs.


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