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May 12, 2012 4:22 PM in response to BarkleyGby BGreg,★HelpfulIf you want to upgrade your operating system, you have to buy it. No shock, that's been industry practice, and Apple's, for years. Once you buy the operating system upgrade, releases are free. The next operating system is OS X 10.5 Leopard. As long as your PowerBook meets the specs, you can upgrade:
- A Mac computer with an Intel, PowerPC G5, or Power PC G4 (867 MHz or faster) processor
- 512 MB memory or more
- A DVD drive for installation
- 9 GB of available disk space or more
Note, if you upgrade to Leopard, you will lose the ability to run OS X Classic mode, which runs under Tiger.
Finding OS X 10.5 is becoming challenging and isn't cheap. If you buy used, don't buy any gray-faced OS X disks, as they are locked to the systems they were delivered with, and none were delivered with PowerBooks. You would want to buy the black-faced retail 10.5 disk. One source for unopened Apple software is http://www.hardcoremac.com .
Once you buy OS X 10.5, then it's no charge to upgrade to the last release 10.5.8. That's the last OS X release that PowerBooks can run.
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May 12, 2012 4:41 PM in response to BGregby BarkleyG,Thank you for the information! Is there any way to update my iTunes without having to purchase a new operating system? I would like to be able to sync my iPhone and update it. my iTunes says it is up to date (9.2.1) yet it won't let me sync my iPhone.
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May 12, 2012 7:05 PM in response to BarkleyGby BGreg,★HelpfulI believe in order to sync your iPhone that you require the iTunes level which in turn requires OS X 10.5.8.
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May 13, 2012 10:54 AM in response to BGregby BarkleyG,That's very disappointing. Thanks for your help.
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May 13, 2012 6:15 PM in response to BarkleyGby Texas Mac Man,Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard installation system requirements
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24950
Leopard is no longer available at the Apple Store but may be available by calling Apple Phone Sales @ 1-800-MY-APPLE (1-800-692-7753).
If you can't obtain a retail install DVD from Apple, look on eBay or Google the installer part numbers to possibly find at an on-line store. Here's what to look for:
MB427Z/A Leopard 10.5.1 install DVD
MB576Z/A Leopard 10.5.4 install DVD
MB021Z/A Leopard 10.5.6 install DVD (single user)
MB022Z/A Leopard 10.5.6 install DVD (5-user family pack)
Installing Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1544
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Installation and Setup Guide
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/leopard_install-setup.pdf
After you install the base 10.5, download & install the 10.5.8 combo update at http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_8_Combo_Update
The DVD should look like this
Caution - Leopard does not support classic mode. So, if you currently open OS 9 apps in classic mode, you won't be able to do this if you upgrade to Leopard.
See Software update, upgrade--what's the difference?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25811
Cheers, Tom
