Serious Question

[coustana]

I am in the process of seeing if I can update to Mavericks and am quite unhappy. In late December 2009 I bought my NEW iMac at the Apple Store with the Leopard os. I later updated to Snow Leopard. I have just now discovered that I was sold an "early 2008" model, 20". I had never measured the screen, but was told it was 21.5. According to their own build list, I see that there were 3 more versions of this computer introduced before the date of my purchase. There have been a couple of other issues that should've given me a heads up. I would like to know what anyone here thinks about this? I had never been inside an Apple Store, nor had ever used a Mac….what did they do? Clean out the back room when they saw an "idiot" walk in?

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

I'll address the upgrade to Mavericks part of your post.

According to Apple, to install Mavericks, you need one of these Macs:

• iMac (Mid-2007 or later) - Model Identifier 7,1 or later

Your Mac also needs:

• OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard v10.6.8 already installed
• 2 GB or more of memory
• 8 GB or more of available space

As an aside, I would recommend you upgrade RAM to the max for the model you have.

So, you can go ahead with the upgrade if you like.