Mid 2007 iMac
Hello! I have an iMac mid 2007, and, of course, it only is not supported (officially) for macOS Sierra. I read that an upgrade of the CPU can support, but no one knows if this is true? Thank you!!
3MJB
No, this is not correct.
There is no official updates. Even if you have replaced the entire mother (at great expense), the installer would probably not recognize and not to install Sierra, anyway.
If you have a spare monitor, you might want to consider buying a Mac mini from recent.
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