07-13-2014, 02:42 AM
Oh, yeah...
On the subject of the iMac...
That Mac should have plenty of CPU/GPU for the OS upgrade.
Do you have any PPC apps that you rely upon? If not...
If it's got 8GB of RAM or more then I'd take it to 10.8.5 or 10.9. Apple tends to "forget" to do thorough testing on migrations/upgrades from older OSs, so jumping that Mac straight to Yosemite is likely to be pretty rough... and in a year or two there may be some worthwhile software that requires Yosemite, so you'll save yourself some pain by getting mostly there now.
If it doesn't have at least 8GB RAM then I'd take it to 8GB and THEN do the upgrade.
Remember to toss the envelope indexes in Mail after moving to Mavericks. And poke through the System Pref's and Finder pref's before you erupt into rage ove the GUI. Most of it can be changed to look and feel like a legit Mac OS again.
And do a SMART check on the hard drive. It's just old enough that it's in prime territory for catastrophic drive failure.
On the subject of the iMac...
That Mac should have plenty of CPU/GPU for the OS upgrade.
Do you have any PPC apps that you rely upon? If not...
If it's got 8GB of RAM or more then I'd take it to 10.8.5 or 10.9. Apple tends to "forget" to do thorough testing on migrations/upgrades from older OSs, so jumping that Mac straight to Yosemite is likely to be pretty rough... and in a year or two there may be some worthwhile software that requires Yosemite, so you'll save yourself some pain by getting mostly there now.
If it doesn't have at least 8GB RAM then I'd take it to 8GB and THEN do the upgrade.
Remember to toss the envelope indexes in Mail after moving to Mavericks. And poke through the System Pref's and Finder pref's before you erupt into rage ove the GUI. Most of it can be changed to look and feel like a legit Mac OS again.
And do a SMART check on the hard drive. It's just old enough that it's in prime territory for catastrophic drive failure.