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A Revisit on this. As I haven't got a new hard drive for the iMac itself yet, & I want to run initially with the original 80gb drive that's already installed for now, rather than using migration assistant can I achieve the same from doing a time machine backup to the nas, re installing leopard...

Great thanks that's really helpful - it seems then that iLife is already installed as I have all of those programs. I've got a 4 bay synology nas on the way so I could install the original drive in that to do as you suggest. And thanks for the advice on the cleaning just found a can of air...

I've been given an iMac G5 which I plan to use with a DAW and plan to upgrade the std 80gb hard drive to at least 1tb and then hook up to a NAS for future storage needs and to allow me to copy stuff across from the original hard drive. My question relates to some of the programs which were/are...

Good news is I've found the full 2gb ram upgrade for under £10 inc delivery on fleabay ! [emoji106]

Ok thank you, I just read on another thread that leopard didn't have garage band but tiger did .. I'll have to hunt about and see if I have iWork's separately.. I guess if not it shouldn't be too hard to torrent it as it's all such old OS lol I was give the G5 with the original install disks +...

I'm about to back up and wipe my 1st generation iMac G5 8,1. and then reinstall leopard. 10.5.8 But I would like to keep Garage Band which apparently didn't come with leopard. Can I do this from the time machine back up I will do first , Or .. Should I do the clean install with 10.4 (Tiger...