If I upgrade my OS to 10.8, will I still be able to run iWork?
I have an iMac from 2008; my wife just got a new iMac to replace her G-5(!). I am still running OS 10.5.8; she is now on 10.8. It seems to make sense for us to both be on the same OS (doesn't it?), but I don't want to have to spend tons of cash to do so. If I upgrade my OS from 10.5.8 to 10.6 to 10.8, will I still be able to run iWork (specifically Pages and Numbers), or will I have to upgrade the software, too? I also see that OS 10.8 needs 2G of memory, which is all I have. So upgrading memory would be another expense. I'm trying to figure out if I'm better off upgrading this machine,or selling a kidney and getting a new iMac. Any thoughts?
iWork will run fine. 2GB is the minimum. Although it will not have optimal performance, I say it should be OK. I have Lion installed on my MacBook with 2GB and it runs fine, Mountain Lion is not much worse.
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thanks!seattle mac girl wrote:
i was told by employee at the apple store i need to install snow leopard to take advantage of the cloud and sync my itunes to my iphone 4s. mainly use my laptop for design work using illustrator CS2 and cant afford to have it not work properly if i upgrade to snow leopard.
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CS2 will NOT work on 10.7 for sure, it might not run on 10.5/10.6 neither.
CS2 is rather dated, you'll have to check with Adobe exactly what you can do first, IMMO don't bother.
You won't achieve your goal, so it's best to stay right where you are and run that machine until it drops less you break something.
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Also new printers/scanners etc.
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What year, CPU speed and screen size is your iMac?
It appears as if it's one of the 2006 models that can only take up to 4 GBs of RAM, but only 3 GBs is recognized.
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2006 models cannot run Mountain Lion, but can run OS X 10.7 Lion.
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...Now what happens if I upgrade to Yosemite on either my iMac or my MBPro?
If I install VM Fusion or Parallels, does Windows run all the time? How does that affect computer performance? and how much do I need to worry about hard drive corruption?
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HT201364 If I upgrade to Mavericks from Snow Leopard will I still be able to use Microsoft office??
If I upgrade to Mavericks from Snow Leopard will I still be able to use Microsoft office??
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Only if you have Office 2008 or 2011. Older Office versions are PowerPC apps, so they no longer work with Mavericks.
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Your account shows that you have a 300 minutes Subscription which includes Bangladesh as a destination to call landlines only. You can't purchase or upgrade to an unlimited version as that option doesn't exist anymore.
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if I upgrade my iMac from leopard 10.5.8 to Mountain Lion will I still be able to use my Microsoft office X software etc?
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