Upgrade MacBook from 10.4.11 to 10.5

[gystav]

Hi ive owned my MacBook for quite a while now, and I would like to upgrade it from 10.4.11 to 10.5. Im not so into macs so I dont really know how to do. Here is my mac's info:

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook2, 1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor speed: 2.16 GHz
Number of processors: 1
Total number of cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB21.00A5.B07
SMC Version: 1.17f0
Serial number: W873816WZ5W
Motion Detector (Sudden Motion Sensor):
Status: Enabled
(I dont know if the "titles" is right, it says in swedish on my mac so i just transladet it. Thanks for your help

 

[mrchinchilla]

Why not upgrade to 10.6?
All you need to do is buy an install disk: either directly from Apple or from another website (Amazon, eBay). And a tip—although being against Apple's wishes—the $29 version of Snow Leopard is the same as the $100+ version and will install on your computer without having to buy the bundled software.

 

[bigbonedp]

Upgrade MacBook from 10.4.11 to 10.5

Hi gystav.

With respect to mrchincilla, go for 10.5 upgrade, at least first.
I had trouble when I bought 10.6 upgrade for my sons MacBook running 10.4.11.
10.6 has to upgrade from 10.5 as there is significant internal differences to 10.4. (I don't understand them all, I just know what happened as a result of doing this)
As a result of upgrading 10.6 from 10.4.11, my son's MacBook took over 8 minutes to boot up 10.6.
In the end we reverted back to 10.5 then did the upgrade to 10.6 and all works fine.

good luck,
bigbonedp

 

[mrchinchilla]

Hi gystav.

With respect to mrchincilla, go for 10.5 upgrade, at least first.
I had trouble when I bought 10.6 upgrade for my sons MacBook running 10.4.11.
10.6 has to upgrade from 10.5 as there is significant internal differences to 10.4. (I don't understand them all, I just know what happened as a result of doing this)
As a result of upgrading 10.6 from 10.4.11, my son's MacBook took over 8 minutes to boot up 10.6.
In the end we reverted back to 10.5 then did the upgrade to 10.6 and all works fine.

good luck,
bigbonedp

An erase/install would be essentially the same thing. The corruptions and problems come from trying to upgrade old software – such as the 10.4 > 10.5 blue screen problem caused by Unsanity's Application Enhancer.
I really wouldn't go through the hassle of buying Leopard AND Snow Leopard, that's just financially inefficient.

Snow Leopard will run greatly on your machine and an erase/install would give you no problems – at the Install screen click "Options" in the bottom left of the window and it will give you three options: Archive and Install, Erase and Install or Upgrade. But make sure to back up any important data first.

Edit: Oh, and maybe look into upgrading your RAM to 2GB or maybe 4GB, it's not too expensive and would give you a good performance boost if you like to have many concurrently-running applications.

 

[gystav]

Ill think that ill stick to the 10.5 thanks for your help both of you. Do you know where I can get a hold of a 10.5 update? Becuase i read in some other forums that it isnt being sold anymore.

 

[Nautilus007]

10.5

You can easily find a copy on ebay