Q: Mavericks upgrade
Hello, I have an iMac 10.6.8 and would like to know if I can upgrade to Mavericks. I clicked on the apple "about this Mac" and can't figure out how much ram or space I have it just says memory 1 GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM. What does that mean?
Thank you,
Susan
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Posted on Oct 5, 2014 12:09 PM
Colleen,
The forums currently have a major glitch that keeps images from displaying consistently for some users. However, maybe I can do this with words.
1) Close all actvive windows so that "Finder" appears next to your Apple icon at the left end of your menu bar.
2) Press and hold SHIFT and COMMAND, then press the u key. That should open your utilties folder in the Finder.
3) In the Utilties folder find System Profiler and double-click to launch it
The opening screen with have a list of content down the left side--ignore that and look at the big main pane. It will have "Hardware overviw" at the top.
Look at the SECOND line of data, "Model Identifier," that will have a code next to it. For my iMac the code is "iMac11,3" Please tell us what code shows there for your computer. It will probably be one of the following:
iMac4,1
iMac4,2
iMac5,1
iMac5,2
iMac6,1
If the numbers in the code are "7,1" or higher your iMac should be able to run teh latest OS version but you will definitely need to add RAM.
If the numbers are 5,1 through 6,1, you can run OS 10.7 "Lion." It is still available for download:
Posted on Oct 9, 2014 10:33 AM
