What version of OSX on IMac G5?
Hi, my dad has a second user iMac which is currently running OSX version 10.5.8.
Due to updates, his e-mail account and browser seem to want to have a newer version of OSX and (being a non Mac user) I'm wondering what later versions would run on his iMac.
According to what I found, it's a PowerMac 8,1 with 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5 (3.0) processor and bus speed of 600 MHz, and boot version 5.2.2f2.
I assume the most modern versions of OSX will not run on such an old machine so there must be a cut off point where a more modern version will still work. I'd appreciated advice on what that might be please.
Many thanks
Fordango wrote:
Hi, my dad has a second user iMac which is currently running OSX version 10.5.8.
That is as far as that G5 iMac will go...
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