Ron Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Edith Fensom <[email protected]> wrote: > > The computer guy says my computer will run OSX but not well. It's > > an imac that is almost 7 years old. It's time for a replacement. > Don't forget, it is profitable for a computer guy to give such > advice. Maybe not. Not many non-apple resellers out there, she could just have been getting honest advice. I'd look at it this way - if it's a G4 iMac, it's perfectly fine for OSX (I'm sitting at one right now and it meets my needs just fine). If it's a G3 iMac (the kind with the CRT built in), then yes, OSX would be straining the system's abilities, and unfair to the user. > My main computer for Genealogy use is a Pismo which is a G3 > from 2000 and it has over 90,000 people on in and is quite > satisfactory. Sure, but are you running OSX on it? If so, you'd be stunned by how much difference it makes on, say, a $600.00 Mac Mini that you could buy today. It comes down to how much slowness you can tolerate, or something will change or break or not work on the old one that you want to do, and _that_ is the time to upgrade. If OSX is the thing she wants to do, and it's a G3, this might be the time. Dave Hinz <[email protected]>