If I do end up either donating or trashing them, I may take steps to more securely erase everything on them, hopefully effectively securely deleting everything that’s ever been on them. I don’t have enough confidence to point you to a resource, other than maybe ShredOS (which I kind of want to use just for the experience) and this this Wirecutter guide on scrubbing solid state drives. I think the older two machines have rotating drives (HDDs), which are easier to erase securely than the more modern solid state drive found on the 2012 Air. I think the 2012 Air can handle High Sierra, but even that is not currently supported.įor a variety of reasons, including my own laziness, I didn’t worry too much about securely erasing the existing data on these particular computers.(Here are what I think are some accurate specs.) The latest OS a MacBook5,1 can handle is apparently OS X 10.11 El Capitan, which is also no longer supported.It has 1 GB of RAM (I think these are roughly the correct specs). iMac5,1s can only be upgraded to 10.7.5 Lion ( source), which stopped being supported by Apple years ago.
Seamonkey for mac 0s x 10.7.5 mac os#
The computersĪs you might expect, none of these machines can run a version of mac OS that is currently supported by Apple:
I also had a 2012 Macbook Air no one was using, so I figured I’d look into that one while I was at it. As the tech nerd of the family, I was asked if these machines were still useful at all. I was visiting family this past weekend and saw an iMac from 2007 and MacBook from 2008 destined for the trash.
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