Posted March 4, 2021 I bought this iMac what's the latest operating system it can run? And should I use a dual layer DVD or USB for the boot drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted March 4, 2021 i'm not too familiar with apple's model numbers.. but i assume if you can find a datecode somewhere this list should help you: https://everymac.com/systems/by_capability/maximum-macos-supported.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted March 4, 2021 According to the Serial Number, you have https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-2-duo-2.0-17-inch-specs.html The highest version of MacOS supported is Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (9/19/2012) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted March 4, 2021 I think on mac you need to find out what year it's from. Then you can see here what OS it will be able to run. EDIT: If I did everything correctly it seems like your Mac is from the late 2006 family which means -according to that list- it can't run any of those. Which one is installed now? GPU: RTX 2080 Super Keyboard: Corsair K70 MK.2 RGB CPU: i7-9700K Mouse: Logitech G PRO Wireless RAM: 16 GB Corsair Vengance PRO Headset: Corsair HS70 PRO Wireless PSU: CX650F Mousepad: Corsair MM500 Extended 3XL MOBO: Asus Prime Z390-A Controller: DualSense 5 Case: Lian Li Lancool II Camera: Canon EOS M50 Monitor: Samsung Odyssey G5 Cooling: Corsair H100i Platinum The white Rabbit Microphone: Trust GXT 252+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted March 4, 2021 the latest it'll run is OSX 10.7.5 She/Her Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted March 4, 2021 It can run up to Mac OS X 10.7.5 Lion. You might be able to patch 10.8 or 10.9 onto it, but I wouldn't bother. Those machines are already very slow on Lion. Main System: Phobos AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (8C/16T), ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 16GB G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 3000MHz, AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB (XFX), 960GB Crucial M500, 2TB Seagate BarraCuda, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations/macOS Catalina Secondary System: York Intel Core i7-2600 (4C/8T), ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN3, 16GB GEIL Enhance Corsa DDR3 1600MHz, Zotac GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB, 240GB ADATA Ultimate SU650, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations Older File Server: Yet to be named Intel Pentium 4 HT (1C/2T), Intel D865GBF, 3GB DDR 400MHz, ATI Radeon HD 4650 1GB (HIS), 80GB WD Caviar, 320GB Hitachi Deskstar, Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows Server 2003 R2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 29, 2021 On 3/4/2021 at 2:43 AM, Jarred4000 said: I bought this iMac what's the latest operating system it can run? download this patcher and you may be able to run the latest MacOS Big Sur even though your iMac is not officially supported https://github.com/BenSova/Patched-Sur/releases My system specs View 91 Tempered Glass RGB Edition, No PSU, XL-ATX, Black, Full Tower Case ROG MAXIMUS XI EXTREME, Intel Z390 Chipset, LGA 1151, HDMI, E-ATX Motherboard Core™ i9-9900K 8-Core 3.6 - 5.0GHz Turbo, LGA 1151, 95W TDP, Processor GeForce RTX™ 2080 Ti OC ROG-STRIX-RTX2080TI-O11G-GAMING, 1350 - 1665MHz, 11GB GDDR6, Graphics Card ROG RYUJIN 360, 360mm Radiator, Liquid Cooling System 32GB Kit (2 x 16GB) Trident Z DDR4 3200MHz, CL14, Silver-Red DIMM Memory AX1600i Digital, 80 PLUS Titanium 1600W, Fanless Mode, Fully Modular, ATX Power Supply Formula 7, 4g, 8.3 (W/m-K), Nano Diamond, Thermal Compound On AIO cooler 6 x NF-F12 IPPC 3000 PWM 120x120x25mm 4Pin Fibre-glass SSO2 Heptaperf Retail 6 x NF-A14 IPPC-3000 PWM 140mm, 3000 RPM, 158.5 CFM, 41.3 dBA, Cooling Fan 1TB 970 PRO 2280, 3500 / 2700 MB/s, V-NAND 2-bit MLC, PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe, M.2 SSD Windows 10 Pro 64-bit Beyerdynamic MMX 300 (2nd Generation) Premium Gaming Headset ROG PG279Q Corsair K95 Platinum XT ROG Sica Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 31, 2021 On 5/28/2021 at 11:53 PM, Thomas001 said: download this patcher and you may be able to run the latest MacOS Big Sur even though your iMac is not officially supported https://github.com/BenSova/Patched-Sur/releases I'm not sure if you're very familiar with these older Macs or not, but Big Sur is absolutely not going to run on this iMac. The 5,1 is from 2006 - it maxes out at Lion, and it's slow then. Even trying to get Mavericks or Yosemite running properly would be a chore, and it wouldn't run well at all. Phobos: AMD Ryzen 7 2700, 16GB 3000MHz DDR4, ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070, 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 1030, 1TB Samsung SSD 980, 450W Corsair CXM, Corsair Carbide 175R, Windows 10 Pro Polaris: Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2, 32GB 1600MHz DDR3, ASRock X79 Extreme6, 12GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, 6GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, 1TB Crucial MX500, 750W Corsair RM750, Antec SX635, Windows 10 Pro Pluto: Intel Core i7-2600, 32GB 1600MHz DDR3, ASUS P8Z68-V, 4GB XFX AMD Radeon RX 570, 8GB ASUS AMD Radeon RX 570, 1TB Samsung 860 EVO, 3TB Seagate BarraCuda, 750W EVGA BQ, Fractal Design Focus G, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations York (NAS): Intel Core i5-2400, 16GB 1600MHz DDR3, HP Compaq OEM, 240GB Kingston V300 (boot), 3x2TB Seagate BarraCuda, 320W HP PSU, HP Compaq 6200 Pro, TrueNAS CORE (12.0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 1, 2021 On 5/31/2021 at 7:59 AM, BondiBlue said: I'm not sure if you're very familiar with these older Macs or not, but Big Sur is absolutely not going to run on this iMac. The 5,1 is from 2006 - it maxes out at Lion, and it's slow then. Even trying to get Mavericks or Yosemite running properly would be a chore, and it wouldn't run well at all. Agreed. You'll never get Big Sur running on a machine with 1GB of RAM. I actually use a macOS VM to test my software/install process sometimes and in order to make it at all usable the VM needs 4GB RAM and 2 CPU cores. My guess would be that you'd need at least this much for running bare metal as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 7, 2021 10.7.5, according to mactracker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 7, 2021 On 5/29/2021 at 4:53 AM, Thomas001 said: download this patcher and you may be able to run the latest MacOS Big Sur even though your iMac is not officially supported https://github.com/BenSova/Patched-Sur/releases i seriously don't think so. https://bensova.gitbook.io/big-sur/supported-macs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 8, 2021 I have the same one but I upgraded it to 4gb of ram, would it be able to run any newer os? If not could I install linux on it(I have tried but couldn't get it to work with lubuntu 32bit) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 8, 2021 1 hour ago, archiso said: I have the same one but I upgraded it to 4gb of ram, would it be able to run any newer os? If not could I install linux on it(I have tried but couldn't get it to work with lubuntu 32bit) As has been clearly mentioned several times they will not run anything newer than 10.7.5 Lion properly. Even getting 10.9 Mavericks to run would be a stretch, and it wouldn't perform well at all. If you need a new OS for it then Linux is your best bet. Phobos: AMD Ryzen 7 2700, 16GB 3000MHz DDR4, ASRock B450 Steel Legend, 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070, 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 1030, 1TB Samsung SSD 980, 450W Corsair CXM, Corsair Carbide 175R, Windows 10 Pro Polaris: Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2, 32GB 1600MHz DDR3, ASRock X79 Extreme6, 12GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080, 6GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, 1TB Crucial MX500, 750W Corsair RM750, Antec SX635, Windows 10 Pro Pluto: Intel Core i7-2600, 32GB 1600MHz DDR3, ASUS P8Z68-V, 4GB XFX AMD Radeon RX 570, 8GB ASUS AMD Radeon RX 570, 1TB Samsung 860 EVO, 3TB Seagate BarraCuda, 750W EVGA BQ, Fractal Design Focus G, Windows 10 Pro for Workstations York (NAS): Intel Core i5-2400, 16GB 1600MHz DDR3, HP Compaq OEM, 240GB Kingston V300 (boot), 3x2TB Seagate BarraCuda, 320W HP PSU, HP Compaq 6200 Pro, TrueNAS CORE (12.0) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 8, 2021 21 minutes ago, BondiBlue said: As has been clearly mentioned several times they will not run anything newer than 10.7.5 Lion properly. Even getting 10.9 Mavericks to run would be a stretch, and it wouldn't perform well at all. If you need a new OS for it then Linux is your best bet. I've tried multiple versions of linux(arch32, centos, lubuntu) and none of them work, when I try to run the installer rEFIt says: The firmware refused to boot etc. I did have the rocks os installer boot but I didn't want to put rocks on there, I just realized that rocks uses centos 7 and I should've just installed it. What do you recommend I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 8, 2021 Never mind, rocks does not seam to work. Edit: It kind of works. Edit 2: Nope, just a static screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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