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bujoecool

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I want to buy an iPod Touch for my wife, but I am concerned that it may not work with our computer. We have an older (5 ish years) Power Book running OS 10.3.9.

The tech specs on Apple's website say that you must have 10.4.10 or later.

Unfortunately a new computer is not in the budget right now. The old computer is in rough shape, and I am not sure that upgrading the OS would be successful. :(

What would or wouldn't she be able to do with her iPod Touch considering the age of our computer?
 
What Powerbook do you have? You could most likely buy a copy of Leopard, and it would work perfectly, because a 5 year old Powerbook is more than good enough to run Leopard.
 
The old computer is in rough shape, and I am not sure that upgrading the OS would be successful. :(

If your machine is running Panther just fine upgrading to Tiger won't hurt it at all. Give it a go. You can probably find a copy for next to nothing.
 
What Powerbook do you have? You could most likely buy a copy of Leopard, and it would work perfectly, because a 5 year old Powerbook is more than good enough to run Leopard.

Thanks for all the replies so far! Our laptop is a PowerBook G4, with a 1.67 GHz PowerPC Processor & 512 MB RAM.

Do you think that will run Leopard or Tiger OK? Would one be better than the other?

Thanks again! :)
 
Our laptop is a PowerBook G4, with a 1.67 GHz PowerPC Processor & 512 MB RAM.

Do you think that will run Leopard or Tiger OK? Would one be better than the other?

My Powerbook G4; 1GHz & 768MB RAM runs both Tiger and Leopard fine. I also have an iPod Touch which works well. I would say go for Leopard though because it has some nice extra features.

Whilst you're picking up a copy of Leopard on eBay, invest in more RAM, at least another 512MB.
 
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