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Re:Security Update 2014-002 by pja on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @05:49PM (#7630713)
Get 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?
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Re:Security Update 2014-002 by coherentpony on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @06:37PM (#7630939)
I think this issue is that it might be the case the hardware isn't even supported on newer OS X releases.
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Re:Security Update 2014-002 by ams6110 on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @07:16PM (#7631101)
Yes they stopped building PPC support after 10.5
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Re:Security Update 2014-002 by coherentpony on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @09:22PM (#7631523)
Not just PPC. They also stopped support certain intel hardware too.
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Re:Security Update 2014-002 by ams6110 on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @09:43PM (#7631578)
That'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.
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Re:Security Update 2014-002 by GFK_of_xmaspast on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @08:17PM (#7631306)
That works but it's not exactly an easy upgrade path.
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