To fry or not to fry

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yuki

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Have iMac with OS 9. Want to upgrade to X.2. The guy at the MAC store said I run the risk of frying my motherboard because my computer was not made for OS X. IS this true? Or is that dude just trying to sell another iMac.
 
You've got to be kidding me. That's a bunch of cr*p. There's no way to fry your motherboard by installing software.

What model Mac do you have?
 
Depending on what you are installing it is easy to hose a hardware component. Have you ever seen a BIOS flash on a PC gone bad?

It all depends on what you are updating... on the other hand, I don't believe you can screw up you mboard by installing X though, especialy since the iMac is on the supported hardware list...
http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/requirements.html

I'm beginning to think that apple should raise the standard for their Apple store employee's.
This is truly sad :(
 
You were trying to install OS X NASA Edition for Mainframe? That guy must be hard up for sales or he was merely pulling your leg.

Lame, nevertheless...
 
There is no physical risk of damage from installing software, especially branded Apple software that will check thouroughly before updating firmware on any component.

I am disgusted that an Apple-store employee could be so thick.

If you tell us which model iMac you're using, we can give you a rough idea of how it will perform under 10.2. You will probably take a hit as far as performance goes as OS 9 is a lot less demanding of the system, but for the extra functionality and stability it should be worth it, depending on what you use your computer for.
Remember that you will have to upgrade or replace many of your software packages if you do upgrade the machine, and consider this before you take out your wallet.
As always, the best idea is to ask around the board and do your research.
 
The guy at my local store(not an Apple Store but an authorized reseller) told me not to install os x on my old imac dv. It's run perferct for me since the beta version. There have actually been a couple of times when I thought that the employees are being a little to cynical. I usually just assume that I can do anything I want with my mac if I am just willing to put some time into it. So far, so good. :)
 
[silly_movie_reference]"Sir, is that really true?"
"Lad, that is what we in the Royal Navy call... a lie."[/silly_movie_reference]
People run Jaguar on all kinds of original iMacs, including the first generation models. I've used Jag on a 350MHz blueberry slot-loader manufactured in April 2000. No problems at all.
 
Originally posted by plastic
Hmmm... /me looks at the 6100 sitting in the corner... :D
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Well, I won't go so far as to say 'never', but I don't believe you will have much success getting OS X to run on a 6100. The prerequisite is PCI-era Macs or later. XPostFacto can work wonders (witness my nice OS X 10.1.5 installation on a 7300/233), but not on a 6100...
 
PCI era hmmm?... What d'you reckon the chances are for a Umax Apus 2160 (Supermac C500) running 10.2? Not hopeful, even with stunning upgrades such as L2 Cache, 4Mb graphics card and 4.5Gb HD! Even if it works, I can see it taking a while to do... well... anything.
 
Pure bulls***. :D

There's absolutely no risk of installing OS X on an iMac. I have it on my iMac DV 400. Also, I had an iMac 333 with OS X on it, and it was usable. Frying the motherboard.. Pfft
 
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