 | Hi all, An 85-year-old friend of mine had an iMAC new in box for well over a decade and has just asked me to set it up for him so he can browse the internet........ :) I'm much more familiar with Windows/Linux than Apple/Mac and was hoping someone could give some feedback and recommendations. It's running OS X 10.8.5 Here are some more detailed specs: At the moment, the primary problem is that while I CAN get on the internet, I cannot render any websites or perform any updates... in fact, I cannot even use the existing Safari to browse any websites; I just keep getting connection errors in Safari. (I have a feeling it's because my public SSL Keychains are so out of date...) Also, cannot connect to the App Store: (guessing the Endpoint changed or something...) However, I AM very much on the internet-- via Terminal/Command prompt, I can ping both local and remote IP/Domains/Hosts... (this is a ping to google.com) So, from what I'm finding, I cannot really update or upgrade out of this one from using the system itself and that's what lead me here. So my question is: Is there a way, using OpenCoreLegactPatcher (or something else), to provision an OS install that would upgrade and bring this thing to life enough to use a Browser? And doing it from within Windows would be amazing as I don't have an Apple/Mac... And if so, can you recommend a MAC OS version that would work the best in this situation? Thank you! EDIT: forgot a post subject and cannot edit it... ugh. [link] [comments] |
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