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I picked up an iMac at our university surplus store for $175. It works well (hey, it’s a Mac). Basic specs are: 1.83 Apple Core Duo, 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. It’s got Leopard but I’d like to upgrade to Snow Leopard (as well as iTunes 10.6) if possible. My plan is to get it ready as a Christmas present for our god son who just stared high school (his mom wouldn’t be able to afford a new iMac and he’d prefer Apple over a PC any day). He’d mostly be using it for school projects and his music. Possible relevant side notes: I have a Macbook (2006) that I just replaced a failed hard drive in and upgraded the OS and memory. Reinstalled the iLife ‘06 suite and it runs GREAT. So my questions are -

  1. Can the upgrades described above be done
  2. Is it worth it
  3. Would I be able to install the iLife suite that came with my Macbook on the iMac also?

This system can run Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”. However, it cannot boot in 64-bit mode nor does it support “OpenCL”. It cannot run versions of Mac OS X more recent than 10.6.8. If this answer is acceptable please remember to return and mark it.