I Mac as a music server on a wireless network?
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One thing about macs is they don't guide you around. Like if some hardware doesn't work a pop up show saying CAN"T LoL, Windows will say would you like to go online and look for the diver for that?
Jim Go online and see if there is a "driver" you need for the stand alone hard drive you have, that you install in the iMac. Then if there is, the iMac can recognize what's being plugged in to it and go from there.
Ok I see your mac is pretty old this is the Apple Rosetta system and your systems name is Tiger the last update you can do I'm pretty sure.
Tips on 10.2 Jaguar, 10.3 Panther, 10.4 Tiger (10.4.4 is the beginning for some Intel Macs. On PowerPC Macs 10.4.11 is the end of Classic's compatibility),
Jim Apple switched and I don't think you can up date out of Rosetta to any of these OS and most are very old as far as computer OS go. I have three mid 2011 27" iMac, Lion came out mid 2010, I kept one Lion, and two are running El Capitan.
10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.9 Mavericks, 10.10 Yosemite, 10.11 El Capitan.
I'll do some reading here Classic's compatibility and see if I can think of something for you.
Need the name, model and age of your stand alone hard drive.
Anyone else also can start looking that's smarter at this stuff...
Mac OS X Tiger System requirements
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2541
Mac models capable of dual-booting into 10.5 and Mac OS 9
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1757
Mac OS X Tiger System requirements
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2541
Mac models capable of dual-booting into 10.5 and Mac OS 9
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1757
Tips on 10.2 Jaguar, 10.3 Panther, 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard (End of the line for PowerPC Macs),
Look like Leopard is your only update you'll be able to do, this is the last Rosetta OS.
Heather is a lot smarter with this stuff than I am she might have some work arounds. @hjames
Look like Leopard is your only update you'll be able to do, this is the last Rosetta OS.
Heather is a lot smarter with this stuff than I am she might have some work arounds. @hjames
My iMac is 2011, as well. I run it off of thunderbolt so I can run SSD speeds. It still gets updates (running Sierra now), but I bet we will be left out of updates soon. I updated the RAM myself, which was easy on this version of the iMac.
My first one was TOTL with the SSD and 1 Terabyte HDD and 3.4 GHz i7 back then, I never wanted to mess with it on updates as I was reading horor stories back then. I'll most likely update soon.
I didn't open it up. I have a Seagate thunderbolt adapter with an SSD attached. It might be slightly slower than a direct internal connection, but it is still a lot faster than the spinning drives. The upside is that if the new Macs are backward compatible with thunderbolt, I can continue to use these drives with the new machines.
I got a MBP in 2011, as well. I plan to update it when the new models come out later this month. I may update the iMac next year, but I am still on the fence about it. The iMac still runs great, so I don't feel a pressing need yet.
Here is a pic of the thunderbolt adapter (this is not the boot drive, I have a ~terabyte sized SSD). They can daisy chain, so I have a few of them (bought them when they were on sale)
I was thinking on updating all my mac stuff this year. I bought the fist one in 2011, then a gen 3 pad, and iPone 5. My first iMac I bought new, about two years ago I bought a used mid 2011, then the graphics card went out (1st one), had it fixed a year later the screen didn't work. I just let it sit and used my second one. The second ones screen went out so I found another one on CL, and mentioned to the guy that I had two dead computers. He asked if I wanted to trade them in for a $100 a piece towards the one he had, I said I'll get them fix, or really start looking at the TOTL iMac's thats about $3800+.
Anyway I found out he's a certified mac tech and fixes computers on the side. So I bought his at $700, my first one he repaired the screen for $100, the second one I had, needed a G card $400.
He took one at a time and had them back in 24 hours, he cleaned them all up and made them snappy. So I think I did good getting them all fixed, there's no way they will all have a problem at the same time. I have a very nice network in the house now so no need for any new iMac's now. In fact my iPhone 5 is fine and I think I'lll just get a new battery for it.
I had a graphics card issue on my 2011 MBP last year and Apple fixed it for free. I haven't had the issue with my iMac (knock on wood). Seems that 2011 was a bad year for the graphics card.
I use my iPad more than my computers, which is why I haven't updated them in the past 5 years.
