Stupid questions about Mac and OSX...

[slycat]

ok...i'm a pc guy. office suddenly wants to upgrade our macs(we have 2, 4yr old macs) to OSX. Will it work fine? Does OSX install/upgrade fine in all 3/4 yr old Macs? Do i just go out and buy the CD and put it in and it upgrades by itself?

how do u recover passwords or reset them? i turn on the machine and it works but when i try to change settings it asks me for username/password...which no one seems to know.

 

[spherrod]

should be fine - what spec are the mac's? G3 or G4? Not sure about recovering the password - I guess it's OS9?

 

[slycat]

just checked ...yeah OS9. how to recover passwd? how does Mac os work? i mean it logs me in automatically and i can do almost everything except critical os stuff. i think i can't mess with the networking...like give the machine a static ip...that kinda thing.

 

[gsaldivar]

Not all older Macs can run OSX.
Plan on upgrading the RAM in both machines.
Plan on losing alot of speed.
Plan on buying all new software.

 

[hopejr]

Full specs on the macs would be nice. Then we can confirm if it will work, and which version - should be fine though. OS 9 is stupid. Been ages since I've used it though so can't help with that password problem. It's good they want to move to OS X.