Additionally, moving to Linux could give us another working computer for light browsing, content entry, and media storage. After some quick Googling, I confirmed Ubuntu could run on my existing hardware. Though our reasons for exploring Linux were different, looking at that platform could be my answer to breathing new life into this aging Mac. I then remembered a post by Kevin Quillen about his move from the Mac to Linux. Modifying this iMac to be a touch screen device also didn't address the issue of running on unsupported software. Though there are solutions to make this possible, I wasn't interested in spending more money on a machine now worth less than a couple of hundred dollars.

My first idea was to turn it into a large iPad by adding touch capability as the primary input instead of a mouse and keyboard. I'm a fan of upcycling old tech when possible, so I started looking for examples of what others have done to revive older iMacs.

We looked at selling or donating this machine, but for a computer over 14 years old at the time of this writing, that felt like a non-starter. Additionally, macOS support for this model stopped at El Capitan (10.11), which Apple no longer supports. Though we maxed out the ram (only 6 GB for this model) and swapped the hard drive for an SSD, it's was still not fast enough for basic computing tasks. Our old home computer was a 2007 24-inch iMac Core 2 Duo. Technology Tech Upcycle - Running Ubuntu Linux on a 2007 iMacīreathing new life into a 15 year old computer

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