A question for MAC OS users (update the OS)
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Hello all, This weekend my mother in law asked me why suddenly YouTube stopped showing videos at full screen in her MAC. I've never used one so I told her that the best we could do was going in front of it and trying to see what was happening. At the end, she has Mac OS X 10.5.8 and it looks like it is so old that all the external services start malfunctioning with it's safari version. I tried to install chrome, Firefox, opera, tor, Maxthon, and I don't remember if I tried with others, but all of them refused to install in that old OS version. Given this is an old computer 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 8GB DDR3 RAM memory, I don't know if she should buy the update DVD or not. In the Internet I've read contradictory information about that: some say that it won't work with that computer and some say it will. What do you recommend? should she buy the DVD? and in case that DVD should be bought... which one? I've seen a lot of them in the Apple store. PS: she is only using that computer to navigate the internet, seeing painting YouTube videos... so it has not much sense changing the computer. Thank you all!
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Hello all, This weekend my mother in law asked me why suddenly YouTube stopped showing videos at full screen in her MAC. I've never used one so I told her that the best we could do was going in front of it and trying to see what was happening. At the end, she has Mac OS X 10.5.8 and it looks like it is so old that all the external services start malfunctioning with it's safari version. I tried to install chrome, Firefox, opera, tor, Maxthon, and I don't remember if I tried with others, but all of them refused to install in that old OS version. Given this is an old computer 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 8GB DDR3 RAM memory, I don't know if she should buy the update DVD or not. In the Internet I've read contradictory information about that: some say that it won't work with that computer and some say it will. What do you recommend? should she buy the DVD? and in case that DVD should be bought... which one? I've seen a lot of them in the Apple store. PS: she is only using that computer to navigate the internet, seeing painting YouTube videos... so it has not much sense changing the computer. Thank you all!
Most likely the processor will not be supported, but best contact a support rep from apple. If the machine is for net only, perhaps save the time (and money) and put some user-friendly linux on it, it should work.
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Hello all, This weekend my mother in law asked me why suddenly YouTube stopped showing videos at full screen in her MAC. I've never used one so I told her that the best we could do was going in front of it and trying to see what was happening. At the end, she has Mac OS X 10.5.8 and it looks like it is so old that all the external services start malfunctioning with it's safari version. I tried to install chrome, Firefox, opera, tor, Maxthon, and I don't remember if I tried with others, but all of them refused to install in that old OS version. Given this is an old computer 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 8GB DDR3 RAM memory, I don't know if she should buy the update DVD or not. In the Internet I've read contradictory information about that: some say that it won't work with that computer and some say it will. What do you recommend? should she buy the DVD? and in case that DVD should be bought... which one? I've seen a lot of them in the Apple store. PS: she is only using that computer to navigate the internet, seeing painting YouTube videos... so it has not much sense changing the computer. Thank you all!
I was under the impression that they gave updates free (no need to buy DVDs). Maybe the hardware is too old to support anything newer? Can you get her to open the App Store and see whether anything newer is offered for update?
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Most likely the processor will not be supported, but best contact a support rep from apple. If the machine is for net only, perhaps save the time (and money) and put some user-friendly linux on it, it should work.
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I was under the impression that they gave updates free (no need to buy DVDs). Maybe the hardware is too old to support anything newer? Can you get her to open the App Store and see whether anything newer is offered for update?
Yes, they do, but it looks like that not for that old computer. No updates appear. In the app store though there are plenty of updates (it looks to me that they are not clean installs but upgrades) but of course, I don't have any idea on what can run there... Time to pay a visit to the closest apple store... Thank you.
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Yes, they do, but it looks like that not for that old computer. No updates appear. In the app store though there are plenty of updates (it looks to me that they are not clean installs but upgrades) but of course, I don't have any idea on what can run there... Time to pay a visit to the closest apple store... Thank you.
Joan Murt wrote:
Time to pay a visit to the closest apple store...
yes - book a 'genius' appointment and say 'fix it please'
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Joan Murt wrote:
Time to pay a visit to the closest apple store...
yes - book a 'genius' appointment and say 'fix it please'
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Joan Murt wrote:
Time to pay a visit to the closest apple store...
yes - book a 'genius' appointment and say 'fix it please'
A buddy dragged me into an Apple shop to troll me once, and not a single "genius" could explain what "IP" meant, let alone explain it. But boy could they harp on "gestures"! You know, that old 90's tech that you had to use with the stylus to get a Palm Pilot to recognize letters. Snazzy.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli
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Hello all, This weekend my mother in law asked me why suddenly YouTube stopped showing videos at full screen in her MAC. I've never used one so I told her that the best we could do was going in front of it and trying to see what was happening. At the end, she has Mac OS X 10.5.8 and it looks like it is so old that all the external services start malfunctioning with it's safari version. I tried to install chrome, Firefox, opera, tor, Maxthon, and I don't remember if I tried with others, but all of them refused to install in that old OS version. Given this is an old computer 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 8GB DDR3 RAM memory, I don't know if she should buy the update DVD or not. In the Internet I've read contradictory information about that: some say that it won't work with that computer and some say it will. What do you recommend? should she buy the DVD? and in case that DVD should be bought... which one? I've seen a lot of them in the Apple store. PS: she is only using that computer to navigate the internet, seeing painting YouTube videos... so it has not much sense changing the computer. Thank you all!