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Dear all


Please help....I'm new to having a mac and have obtained a second hand iMac 4.1 with an intel core duo and a speed of 1.83GHz


I am struggling getting iCloud onto the computer to be able to look at my calendar and e-mails etc but also to be able to use for messenger and so forth.


Can anyone please advise me what I can do? and how I can get iCloud among many other things on my iMac. I can't even upgrade it to OS X Mountain Lion (I'm running Mac OS X version 10.6.8).


Any help you can give me would be deeply appreciated. I don't know much about Macs so anything in laymans terms would be great.


Many thanks

Jo

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Feb 9, 2013 11:17 AM

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Feb 9, 2013 11:21 AM in response to jbartlett10

It's a so old iMac (Early 2006 iMac) that it's only compatible with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Unfortunately, with that iMac you can't use iCloud (iCloud requires OS X Lion or later, but your Mac isn't compatible with Lion).


The problem is that your iMac uses an Intel Core Duo processor, that prevents you to install a newer version than Snow Leopard, just because it's not a 64-bit processor. I'm sorry, but there isn't too much that we can do with that computer, because it's not possible to modify the processor as it's soldered onto the logic board.


If you want iCloud, you need a new Mac

Feb 9, 2013 11:24 AM in response to mende1

Thank you very much - it's ashame as it was a birthday pressie from my mum who thought she was doing good in helping me get into the world of macs.


I'm a photographer by trade but use everything on a pc - I want to switch to mac but had never used one before.


I'm not sure how to tell her that the one she bought me is not quite right


Thank you for your reply - it's really helped me.


Is there any other upgrade I can do - not to Mountail Lion but anything else?


Thanks

Jo

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