does this require an upgrade from 1GB? i presently have tiger and have 1 GB ram...will the installation of this slow my mac down??
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I can't actually answer your question (yet, going to install soon) however since the upgrade to 2gb (via two 1gb chips) is only around $30 here on amazon it seems silly not to upgrade.. also waiting on my memory so I'll post back with my experiences :)
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For the Mac, more than the minimum 2GHz processor and 2GB of RAM specified in the operating manual. It does not run with the minimum!
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I had a similar bad experience with installing Mavericks on a similar iMac. While the additional memory was helpful, I don't think the newer OSs are exactly compatible with legacy models; we had overheating and random shutdown issues. We eventually rolled back to Snow Leopard and it's been much better since.
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hello michellewe just double check.... this imac is runing leopard 10.5thanksc.s. pat jones
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bought mine Saturday, came with old leopard (but i bought snow leopard) best macbook pro ever. snow leopard really makes it come alive (with speed) my adobe and pro apps load up with the greatest of ease (it's scary how fast they run now), heck, even firefox doesn't slow down the system anymore! (though it does take it's time) and now you can add more than 10 items to you dock (when dragging a folder down), soo awesome!
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I bought the 20inch 2.0 ghz iMac last week. I dont think an upgrade of the CPU is required but wont hurt. I went with a RAM upgrade as I am a developer (100 bucks only for 4GB). It gives good performance with 2.0 ghz CPU.
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SilverFast 8 will run under 10.8 as long as you have an IntelMac - which you will, when running Mountain Lion! :)
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Running Yosemite on it now - no issues whatsoever. It's a clean install of the OS though, rather than an upgrade. That seems to make a difference in general, and upgrading to Yosemite tends to be glitchy. RAM has performed just fine.
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Not true, you can upgrade to Leopard for $9.95 through Apple if you bought the Tiger Macbook between Oct. 1 and Dec. 29! Go to Apple's website and submit your Macbook serial number to qualify for the $10 upgrade to Leopard!
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John. I guess Amazon is still selling Mountain Lion. The upgrade happened two weeks ago ... But if you buy from Amazon, you can make the upgrade later. It's free. I advice you to buy 256GB. I've bought 128GB and now I need an external HD.
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It really seems to depend on where your iMac is shipped from. I ordered mine on January 29, 2007 and it arrived with Tiger installed. No Leopard disc was included. I contacted Amazon and they referred me to Apple. In the end, Amazon refunded me the money to purchase Leopard and iLife '08.My order shipped from Cincinnati, OH.
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I am using it in my early 2006 Mac Pro and it is running it at full speed. Not sure why it is running slower for you.
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I had to use a flash hack to roll back to earlier macbook pro 15 firmware that set it for 1.5GBs, it seems to work ok. I did read where some folks on forum said it was the SATA cable on the Macbook Pro that was the problem and they bought a newer cable and swapped it to fix it
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yes, an upgrade to 4gb ram can be done. i have the same model and had 2 times 1 gb added. the mac minni is pretty hard to open and you,ll have to get the suitable ram. instructins to an upgrade can be googled. i recommend getting the 2010 model. you,ll save money and time plus the 4gb ram and a hdmi socket are built in. btw the mac mini remains to this da the best apple product. don,t miss it!
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I just received an NA895LL/A 15" MBP that was ordered on 11/23 (and arrived today 11/27). It came with iLife08 and Tiger preinstalled on the hard drive, the 2 MBP OS/bundle install disks, and a Leopard 'CPU Drop-in Kit' DVD (which was not installed). I'm going to install Leopard from scratch then install iLife08 from the 2 original OS install disks.Apple sales says there is no longer an up-to-date program for iLife08 FWIW, if you get one of these from amazon with the older iLife suite you're SOL ($80 to buy a copy of 08).
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bought mine Saturday, came with old leopard (but i bought snow leopard)best macbook pro ever. snow leopard really makes it come alive (with speed)my adobe and pro apps load up with the greatest of ease (it's scary how fast they run now), heck, even firefox doesn't slow down the system anymore! (though it does take it's time)and now you can add more than 10 items to you dock (when dragging a folder down), soo awesome!
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I upgraded both the ram and the hard drive to a solid state drive.But bewarned it takes ddr2 ram which cost twice as much as ddr3 ram.Also I recommend getting this macbook because it heats up very fast and barely can run a 1080p YouTube video.You're better off saving you money for a better laptop.