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Turns out if you missed the 10.5 -> 10.6 or 10.7 upgrades, you appear to be hosed unless you can find some physical media for those releases, you can't go 10.5
by GFK_of_xmaspast 13y ago
Turns out if you missed the 10.5 -> 10.6 or 10.7 upgrades, you appear to be hosed unless you can find some physical media for those releases, you can't go 10.5 -> 10.8 (never tried ->10.9, would not expect it to work).
- pja 13y agoGet hold of a 10.9 installer on a USB stick from a friend with a 10.9 Mac & restore /Users from backup after a wipe & fresh install of 10.9?
- coherentpony 13y agoI think this issue is that it might be the case the hardware isn't even supported on newer OS X releases.
- ams6110 13y agoYes they stopped building PPC support after 10.5
- coherentpony 13y agoNot just PPC. They also stopped support certain intel hardware too.
- ams6110 13y agoThat's true. The latest OSX releases won't install on some of the early Intel Macs. I've heard it's possible, with a certain amount of hacking, to get an early Intel MacPro for example to run 10.8 or maybe even 10.9 but it's unsupported.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 13y agoThat works but it's not exactly an easy upgrade path.
- mrpippy 13y agoApple still sells 10.6 (the physical DVD) online (at it's original price, $20) for anyone still stuck on 10.5. Once you're at 10.6.8, the Mac App Store is available for further upgrades