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Hi there,

I have recently lost my early 2006 macbook. It has had numerous issues such as the common flickering screen, and the bulging battery issue. I was going to attempt to install a new inverter and battery in it but instead, i was able to find a 24" mid 2007 imac with a failed hard drive. My friends were going to dump it as they are going to get a new imac 5K so i decided to take it home. I installed a 1tb disk in it and 6gb of ram to bring it up to modern standards. It comes packaged with 10.5.8 (Leopard).

I also picked up a used magic trackpad for it but only to realize after that it requires 10.6 to run the magic trackpad.

So now my question is, What OS should I run for the iMac (Mid 2007, 2.4Ghz, 6GB Ram, 1TB 7200rpm HDD, ATI Radeon 256mb GDDR3 Memory). My main priorities is speed and performance, the second priority is to be able to use the magic trackpad. I will be using it only for web browsing, listening to music and watching movies. I have other computers at home that deal with "work" (batch editing photos, photoshop, etc).

Thank you very much for your time.

Just to add, I have been using 10.4 Tiger for 9 years now with NO problems at all (asides from not being able to use the most current software updates, and not be able to watch youtube in 1080p format - i pretty much understand my limitations in using old tech).

My personal preference for you is to purchase a OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard install disc, then update to OS X 10.6.8 and STAY THERE!

Your IMac will run its best on OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.

Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard system requirements

Purchased Installer disc here.

https://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard

To install Snow Leopard for the first time, you must have a Mac with:

An Intel processor

An internal or external DVD drive, or DVD or CD Sharing

At least 1 GB of RAM (additional RAM is recommended)

A built-in display or a display connected to an Apple-supplied video card supported by your computer

At least 5 GB of disk space available, or 7 GB of disk space if you install the developer tools.

Later versions of OS X are more memory intensive and lean more towards being a hybrid of OS X and IOS.

The only other choice I do not really recommend, but your 2007 IMac may run okay on it is once your IMac is upgraded to OS X 10.6.8, purchase an email download code for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

To install OS X  10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks (currently unavailable) or OS X 10.10 Yosemite.you need one of these Macs:

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion purchased emailed download code here.

https://store.apple.com/us/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion

iMac (Mid-2007 or later)

MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later),

MacBook Pro (15-inch or 17-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later)

MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)

Mac mini (Early 2009 or later)

Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)

Xserve (Early 2009)

Your Mac also needs:

OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard v10.6.8 already installed

2 GB or more of memory (I strongly advise, at least, 4 GBs of RAM or more)

8 GB or more of available space

While there is the free OS X 10.10 Yosemite for immediate download on the Mac App Store, your iMac model will run a lot slower on this OS X version and is NOT without plenty of issues and really is not ready for use as an everyday OS.

My opinion here, stay away from installing OS X Yosemite for quite awhile.

Thank you very much for this. I was thinking the same thing. I don't need the iOS integration. Most of the updates made after 10.6.8 are superfluous (maybe asides from Airplay mirroring. I can see that being used if my mac was near my TV.

iMac mid 2007 with 2.4 processor and 4gb ram will run El Capitan 10.11.6 nicely.

I applaud Apple for letting us poor people stay in the game for so very long.

I have a 24inch 2007 Imac, I am Running Mavericks , any OS above this and the computer craps out bad. Granted the computer is 10 years old and I eagerly await its death.

Very late answer : my 10 year old iMac runs smoothly for light tasks with El Capitan 10.11.6 with 6Gb RAM.

Don't expect much raw power !

Perfect for office work, light video editing and movies.

Excellent after 10 years.

DM

I have iMac 2007 2.4GHz and 4GB RAM, with Mac OS X 10.11.

Works fine. Speed is decent. Youtube videos play fine without stuttering.  The UI is fairly clean (not cluttered). I like OS X 10.11 compared to earlier ones like Mac OS X 10.7, 10.6 down to Tiger 10.4.  I skipped Mac OS X 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10 and just upgraded directly from 10.6.8 to 10.11.

Plus OS X 10.11 supports latest browsers from Google and Firefox so many websites work well with latest browsers.

It would be nice to have proper facts.

10.8.5 has an up to date Moziila based web browser called Waterfox.

It is at the same version as the current Mozilla Firefox.

Also, supports latest Adobe Flash Player

Current version of Firefox supports OS X 10.9 through macOS Sierra.

Also supports current Adobe Flash Player.

IMHO, older versions of the Mac OS run faster on older Macs.

Newer versions of the Mac OS (OS X 10.10, 10.11 and macOS Sierra) all need more than 4 GBs of RAM, now.

Gone are the days that Mac operating systems can run nominally on 2-4 GBs of RAM.

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