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I am very new to mac's. I just bought an imac for $30. I just installed 10.0 on it. This looks like windows 98 (old) i'm guessing. It has 512mb of ram, which I want to upgrade. I'm not sure how to take this pc apart to find out where the ram is located. Where would you check to find the system properties, like windows? Is it possible to upgrade this machine to 10.6? I know very little about this unit so any help would be appreciated.
TIA, Ryan
 
Can you describe the iMac, so we can decide how to help you?
Is the iMac a CRT (large rounded shape, usually is a color, such as blue, green, red, dark drey, or maybe white) Or, is this a flat panel LCD display, maybe on a half-dome?
If an older iMac, how do you put a CD in the front? Is it a tray that you open, or just a slot for the CD.
If the iMac is running, go to the Apple menu (top left on the screen), and choose About this Mac. That window will tell you the processor type, and speed. What do you see there?
 
To know your system properties
1. Click Apple Icon
2. Click About this Mac
3. Click More info


As far as upgrading to 10.6 is concerned, you need minimum 1 GB of RAM and 5 GB free space on hard disk.

I can't help you with the RAM but you can free up your hard drive space with speed up Mac utility.
 
ronaldross said:
To know your system properties
1. Click Apple Icon
2. Click About this Mac
3. Click More info


As far as upgrading to 10.6 is concerned, you need minimum 1 GB of RAM and 5 GB free space on hard disk.

I can't help you with the RAM but you can free up your hard drive space with speed up Mac utility.
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Again, another reply to a "zombie" post, easily avoided by checking the date of the post you want to answer.
 
ronaldross said:
As far as upgrading to 10.6 is concerned, you need minimum 1 GB of RAM and 5 GB free space on hard disk.
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...and an Intel processor, which I highly doubt the user got with his iMac that cost a whopping $30.

In fact, I'm SURE the iMac doesn't have in Intel-based processor, because the poster was able to load Mac OS X 10.0 on the machine -- something that no Intel-based Mac would ever be capable of doing.
 
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