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need help new with i mac pc
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Contact Apple and ask for the grey Restore CD/DVDs, they will probably send you replacements for 15 to 30 USD.
Or get a Retail version of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, but they cost more than 100 USD via eBay nowadays.
Btw, it's called an iMac.
And for future reference:
Or get a Retail version of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, but they cost more than 100 USD via eBay nowadays.
Btw, it's called an iMac.
And for future reference:
"How to maximise your MacRumors troubleshooting experience" created by mad jew in 2006
It came with Mac OS X 10.4.x, as Mac OS X 10.5 was released in October 2007 and the G5 iMac was discontinued in 2006 in favour for the Intel iMac.
You can install Mac OS X 10.5 though, Mac OS X 10.6 is for Intel Macs only.
Look here for information about your specific iMac: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/stats/imac_g5_2.0_20.html
Look here for information about the switch to Intel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleIntel_transition
Look here for information on how to contact Apple, your country's Apple website may have differing information though: www.apple.com/contact
Tiger and Leopard are the official code names for their respective Mac OS X version, but the name never shows up in About This Mac, unless one hacks it.
Stolen from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X#Versions
Yes, there is, but not via legal means, thus no dice here.
And using CAPS LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE SCREAMING AT US.
They will send you the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger version though, just so you know. You have to get the Leopard upgrade via eBay or other means if you want Leopard.
You don't need to do a "fresh start" just create a new user account and delete the old one. OS X keeps everything pretty tiddy by itself. Its not Windows.
yes no need for reinstall , just create a new user account and delete the old one , job done
safe up for the disc , you might need it in the future ,
and its not windows world , Mac users are proud that they own the the software they use
and it has a advantage with legal obtained software you can call the developer
and ask for support if something doesn't work like you expected it
safe up for the disc , you might need it in the future ,
and its not windows world , Mac users are proud that they own the the software they use
and it has a advantage with legal obtained software you can call the developer
and ask for support if something doesn't work like you expected it
OSX 10.5 Leopard saw the introduction of Time Machine. You can back up the entire system to an external drive with time machine, and it will make incremental back ups up to once an hour. In the event of a system failure, you can use a retail Leopard install disk to restore the computer from the backup.