Updating flash player on OS 10.3.9

[Drsmith3]

Hey, everybody. I'm new here, so this is my first post.

My old computer (a laptop) runs on OS X 10.3.9 and cannot support the newest version of Flash; however, I am having difficulty viewing simple stuff on pages such as Facebook, which is horribly troublesome. Is there any way around this without having to buy a new computer? I pretty much can't update this computer to any higher operating system; doing so would surely crash it.

Thanks.

 

[CubeHacker]

It would help if we knew what kind of mac you had, with the exact specs. You might be surprised to find that it'll run tiger just fine.

 

[BlueRevolution]

Yeah, Tiger runs just fine on my iBook G3 500 MHz with 576 MB of memory.

 

[Drsmith3]

It's a PowerBook G4, if that helps.

 

[BlueRevolution]

What speed is the processor and how much memory does it have? You can definitely run Tiger and may even be able to run Leopard.

 

[Drsmith3]

Processor: 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4

Memory: 1 GB DDR SDRAM

I really don't want to update it, though...this computer's already 4-5 years old and lags a bunch...it's the financial aspect that repels me from upgrading.

 

[BlueRevolution]

You could run Leopard with absolutely no problem, no hardware upgrades required. Either way, a fresh install might speed up your machine. It's not slow for lack of system resources, but there's something running that is slowing things down.