MAC upgrade

Working on a MAC that is not compatible with any MAC cleaning software. Machine is said to be slow and time and freezes up on email sometimes.

After reading up on system it looks like it needs to have OS upgraded. I've never done this before (Mac OS upgrade) so I'm asking if someone can verify that what I gleaned is indeed what needs to be done. Thanks!

From what I read it needs to have Snow Leopard installed from a disk. Looks like that can be obtained from here:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/M...3317370_&cid=aos-us-kwg-pla-apple+accessories

To back up a MAC to external HD prior to installing new OS I read the following directions from following link:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/ques...-it-share-external-drive-with-windows-backups

Luckily, you don't need two separate drives. Using partitioning you can trick your computer into thinking it is connected to more than one drive, although there's only one. In this case, two partitions will suffice, one HFS+ and one NTFS.

(Why only one NTFS partition although you back up 3 Windows computers? Because Windows stores backups in folders named after the computer name so there are no conflicts whatsoever (see this post). You can use one NTFS partition to store backups of multiple Windows computers.)

I'd recommend that you create the HFS+ partition on your Mac first, then, on your Windows computer, format the other partition to NTFS:

Plug your drive into your Mac.
Open Disk Utility (in Applications/Utilities).
Select the drive and select the Partition tab.
Create two partitions. Format the first partition as HFS+ (and give it a name like "Time Machine"). Leave the other partition as "Free Space". See here for more details.
Eject the drive and plug it into your Windows computer.
Format the second partition as NTFS.
When you're done, plug the drive again into every Mac/Windows computer and select the corresponding partition as backup drive (see here for OS X and here for Windows).

To prevent the NTFS partition from being mounted every time you connect the drive into your Mac add this entry to /etc/fstab (as explained here):

LABEL=BACKUP_WINDOWS none fusefs_txantfs noauto
Replace BACKUP_WINDOWS with the NTFS partition name.

This setup works like a charm.

The system information:

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBook Pro 5,1
Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4GHz
Processors: 1
Cores: 2
L2 cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus speed 1.07 GHz

Version 10.5.8
232.57 capacity
199.68 available
32.89 GB on disk


Thank you!

 

I think you have a 2008 Mac and should consider
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201475
I would attach an external drive and back up all data and do a clean install.

 

DOA,

According to that link and the other stuff I've read, it needs to have at least Snow Leopard installed prior to any other updates.

Thanks