Help Upgrading OS's on a Mac...
I have no idea what I am doing right now but what I do know is that my BBStorm, which is running .75, is so slow its beginning to severly agitate to poo out of me. Can anyone here point me in the direction of instructions to download a new OS on my mac?
If it works with VMware can someome tell me where to download what I need to do it?
Please, I need help!
Hi!
I must say that the first 8 words of your post lead me to advise against trying to do anything that is beyond the production OS, which you already have. What you can do, however, is follow the advice advocated in other threads to regain performance. That is, do a battery pop hard reboot roughly every four days. With power ON, remove the back cover and pull the battery. Wait a minute or so. Reinsert the battery and replace the back cover. Power on and wait patiently through the long long long reboot process (perhaps as long as 10 minutes). Things should be much improved...at least for about 4 days.
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