I want to update my os x 10.3.9

[Wandervogel]

hi all,

i try desperadly to update my os x 10.3.9 to a newer version. What do i have to do?

Thanks

 

[mkrishnan]

What kind of Mac do you have?

If it meets the requirements of Tiger, you just buy a Tiger retail DVD (the black one with an X on it), put it in the DVD drive, and restart off it.

If it meets the requirements of Leopard and you prefer to go all the way to Leopard, you buy a Leopard retail DVD (also black with X) and put it in the drive and boot off it.

My personal recommendation is that, if you want Tiger, you should ideally have 1GB or more of memory. If you have 512MB-768MB, Tiger is still okay but you may have to disable Dashboard and/or Spotlight to get adequate performance.

If you want Leopard I'd recommend against this unless it's a G5 with more than a gig of memory.

Or is there some subtlety of the issue missing?

 

[Wandervogel]

thanks for the quick answer...

Here are some informations

CPU Type: PowerPC G4
CPU Speed: 1.25 GHz
Memory: 256 MB
Bus speed: 167 MHz

Hope you can tell me if it meets the requirements.

Thanks

 

[Gray-Wolf]

Here is Apple's list of requirements for Tiger


Summary
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger system requirements

Products Affected
Mac OS X 10.4
To use Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, your Macintosh needs:

A PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
Built-in FireWire
At least 256 MB of RAM
DVD drive (DVD-ROM), Combo (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) or SuperDrive (DVD-R) for installation
At least 3 GB of free disk space; 4 GB if you install the XCode 2 Developer Tools
Check out our System Requirements webpage for an overview of the supported hardware for Mac OS X.


For Leopard -

 

[sickmacdoc]

thanks for the quick answer...

Here are some informations

CPU Type: PowerPC G4
CPU Speed: 1.25 GHz
Memory: 256 MB
Bus speed: 167 MHz

Hope you can tell me if it meets the requirements.

Thanks

While you Mac meets the Tiger requirements as posted above by iMac-Knight, you are right on the edge memory-wise. You will be very disappointed in the performance of Tiger (and Leopard would require more just to meet minimum requirements) without installing more RAM. Memory is one of the most cost-effective ways to improve performance in your Mac, and in this case it would make a very noticeable improvement. Even performance under your current 10.3.9 would be enhanced with additional RAM.

 

[mkrishnan]

^^ Agreed. Take a look at how the memory is configured on this Mac and price out getting either a 512MB upgrade (to get to 768kb) or else 1GB total. Then Tiger will be great.

Hmmm...1.25GHz... Is it an eMac, perhaps:

http://apple-history.com/?page=gallery&model=emac_usb2&performa=off&sort=date&order=ASC&range=

In that case, you can put 512MB modules in the two RAM slots to get 1GB.

 

[chris200x9]

buy leopard pop it in and it will pretty much take care of it's self

 

[Gray-Wolf]

buy leopard pop it in and it will pretty much take care of it's self

With what he has, currently, Leopard won't work. He needs to upgrade hardware first.

 

[StuBeck]

The only thing I would recommend Leopard for is time machine. But otherwise I wouldn't run it on that machine, even if you upgrade it to the max RAM.

 

[highertrod]

installing Mac OSX leopard to my Imac 10.3.9

I just purchased the new Leopard to install on my IMac version 10.3.9. As soon i Pop the DVD in, I am prompted to restart which I do, then the grey screen comes on then I am prompted to restart again and again and again.. what am I doing wrong?

Processor, 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5
Memory, 256 MB DDR SDRAM
L2 Chase (per CPU) 512 KB


please help!

 

[sickmacdoc]

I just purchased the new Leopard to install on my IMac version 10.3.9. As soon i Pop the DVD in, I am prompted to restart which I do, then the grey screen comes on then I am prompted to restart again and again and again.. what am I doing wrong?

Processor, 1.8 GHz PowerPC G5
Memory, 256 MB DDR SDRAM
L2 Chase (per CPU) 512 KB


please help!

Well a couple of thoughts- is this a retail (boxed) black Leopard disk you purchased or grey System restore disks? Also from looking at the Leopard system requirements listed in a post earlier in the thread I see that your memory does not meet the minimum requirements so may well be interfering with progress.

 

[Gray-Wolf]

You can use the hardware test that comes on the disk. Don't restart, and then look for the program on the disk.

 

[Sky Blue]

You need 512 MB Minimum.

 

[danvan21]

I think the easiest way would be to go get a new macbook.

 

[highertrod]

Well a couple of thoughts- is this a retail (boxed) black Leopard disk you purchased or grey System restore disks? Also from looking at the Leopard system requirements listed in a post earlier in the thread I see that your memory does not meet the minimum requirements so may well be interfering with progress.

Sickmacdoc - I bought the boxed black Leopard from Apple store. How do I upgrade my mac's memory? I am very new with the mac. Thanks