I need help please :)

Troyboydub

Hi everyone

My 1 year old son very nicely pulled my iMac onto the ground because I wouldn't put on Peppa the Pig and I had to restore everything back to factory settings to Tiger

I have searched high and low for a copy of leopard but even McTivate or whatever way you spell it tried to charge me €35.00 to install it for me and it's just robbery

Would anyone have a lend of a copy for a day or two so I can get back up and running because with Tiger I can't do anything at all on it

Thanks in advance

Troy

ZENER

35 quid to supply and install a new OS is robbery ?! Seriously ?

Leopard is long gone I'm afraid. As your iMac came with Tiger I'd guess it's a G5 processor so Snow Leopard is useless to you. I might still have a copy of Leopard lying about somewhere, I'll have a look.

Ken

Troyboydub

Hi Ken

That's would be great and very much appreciated, I was speaking to apple care today and gave the serial number but they said snow leapord would work also

I would actually pick it up on the moon at this point

sozbox

Troyboydub wrote: »

Hi Ken

That's would be great and very much appreciated, I was speaking to apple care today and gave the serial number but they said snow leapord would work also

I would actually pick it up on the moon at this point

I have both Leopard and SL discs if you need them.

Troyboydub

Just sent you a mail there Jason....think I called you Ken in it sorry about that

ZENER

Troyboydub wrote: »

Just sent you a mail there Jason....think I called you Ken in it sorry about that

I don't think Snow Leopard will work for you though. It's Intel only. You say your machine came with or runs Tiger - this means it has to be a PPC G5/G4 machine I think ? Tiger didn't run on Intel afaik.

Ken

Captain Commie

ZENER wrote: »

I don't think Snow Leopard will work for you though. It's Intel only. You say your machine came with or runs Tiger - this means it has to be a PPC G5/G4 machine I think ? Tiger didn't run on Intel afaik.

Ken

Ken you are 100% correct, Tiger was PPC only and the last OS that had support for PPC was Leopard, Snow Leopard was for intel macs only.

Zapp Brannigan

Tiger wasn't PPC only. My first Macbook with a Core Duo came with Tiger.

Cork24

Why don't one google the operating system which torrent at the end And u knw what to do next

Troyboydub

I know for sure it's an intel iMac I remember seeing it on the box and the apple rep on the phone told me snow leapord would work on it also

Cork24

Troyboydub wrote: »

I know for sure it's an intel iMac I remember seeing it on the box and the apple rep on the phone told me snow leapord would work on it also

See the Apple Icon on the Top Left hand side Click on it... Click on ABout this MAC and it will tell you the Processor and Memory, You can Click on More Info.. that will tell you everything about your Mac, Then you will know if its a G4 or an Intel Duo Core Computer..


Is your Imac the White one or the Gray one ? if its the White one then you have the G processor as the Gray where the ones that came with the Intel Duo Core..

sozbox

Cork24 wrote: »

....Is your Imac the White one or the Gray one ? if its the White one then you have the G processor as the Gray where the ones that came with the Intel Duo Core..

Not quite correct, the first Intel based iMac's introduced in 2006 where in fact white also.

Troyboydub

It's the grey one and on the more info it has 2.4 ghz intel core duo

I hope that's clears it up