Just got an email from Dropbox - said they are dropping support for 10.4 and 10.5 on May 18th. 10.6 will be the new minimum. Drat, I still use both OS's and they can't be upgraded (PPC). Oh well, was nice while it lasted...

Sounds like time for new used Iron.

Should be able to find a nice 2008 20" iMac for about $200 -- and they will even run Yosemite -- but run 10.6.8 wonderfully...

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Hits me. too. G5 is still my main file server. Runs a max of 10.5.8.

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I am slowly but surely becoming a bit of a technophobe for precisely this reason -- forced obsolescence.

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Sounds like time for new used Iron.

Should be able to find a nice 2008 20" iMac for about $200 -- and they will even run Yosemite -- but run 10.6.8 wonderfully...

I have newer iron - i just like using my Pismo, Cube, eMac, and G4's too.

(I also snagged a 2009 imac for $100, I just don't have it up and running yet.)

What a bargain on that old imac! Oh.. ;)

please share your secret...

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(I also snagged a 2009 imac for $100, I just don't have it up and running yet.)

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(I also snagged a 2009 imac for $100, I just don't have it up and running yet.)

It was a good craigslist score - 20 inch 2.66ghz, boots fine, looks new, and everything works great but the HD has SMART errors. I'm planning on tossing in an SSD to replace it, so it'll wind up being a $200 imac, in the end. Much faster than my '06 imacs.

we scored a 20" 2008 iMac for $200 with Apple BT keyboard and mouse and 3 GB of ram. Just a matter of looking and being patient =)

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Ugh, still using my G5. Not good news. Bad year for big expenses. Anybody got options?



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hold long will the old client work?

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Ugh, still using my G5. Not good news. Bad year for big expenses. Anybody got options?

If you need a tower, first-gen gen Mac Pro's can be had cheeply and can do anything your G5 can do. I see smalldog has 'em for $250. That'll support you up to 10.7, or later if you don't mind a little hacking.

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hold long will the old client work?

The message said May 18.

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Ugh, still using my G5. Not good news. Bad year for big expenses. Anybody got options?

If you don't need a tower, that 2007, 2008 iMac I mentioned is great.

I moved from a Dual G5 to a 2007 24" AL iMac in 2007 -- it was huge. Made the G5 look like it was standing still.

The iMac is still in use today, with 4 GB of ram and a 128 GB SSD its still a great performer.

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The 2006 Mac Pro is a nice replacement for a G5. I migrated my G5 drives into it with a bit of cloning, and reformatting to GUID. Have Tiger through Lion on it. It's my Wayback Machine for old files and apps. I would suggest some research on patching some security bugs on the older systems, though. I took care of the bash problem and the ntp problem on the Snow Leopard drive, but ran into a snag getting the ntp fix done on Lion. I think there is info out there on how to fix it in Leopard and maybe even Tiger. In the meantime, you should just disable automatic time checks in the Date &Time control panel.

Could Dropbox be the last modern software to support 10.4?

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Thanks for the tips!

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hold long will the old client work?

The message said May 18.

oh, that sucks!

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Could Dropbox be the last modern software to support 10.4?

Nope. Firefox has been ported with TenFourFox. Current version of Firefox is 35, ESR is 31.4.0, TenFourfox is based on the ESR and current version matches, 31.4.0.