Thinking of buying a friend's iBook A1134

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Thinking of buying a friend's iBook A1134

I'm a newbie to the Mac ecosystem other than I've been using an iPod for about 10 years, a iPad for about 2 and an iPhone for about 7 months. The above is running 10.4 Tiger. Is there anyway to upgrade it to Leopard or Snow Leopard. I've look throughout the forums and still haven't been able to find an answer. I know because I don't have an Intel Core, I can't upgrade to Lion. My specs are as follows:

Thanks in advance for your assistance 🙂

Airport Extreme A1034-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jun 9, 2012 8:37 PM

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laundry bleach

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Jun 9, 2012 8:40 PM in response to vdubbeet

The highest operating system the iBook can use is Leopard (10.5.8). Good luck finding it at a reasonable price.

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Jun 9, 2012 9:51 PM in response to vdubbeet

Here's the complete specs on your iBook http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ibook/specs/ibook_g4_1.42_14.html

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Jun 9, 2012 10:07 PM in response to vdubbeet

You can get a 10.5 Leopard disk on eBay. But be sure you get the full retail install disk and not the gray disks. The gray disks only work with the Mac model that they shipped with.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_sop=12&_trkparms=72%253A1234%257C66%253A2%257C65 %253A12%257C39%253A1&_sacat=0&_nkw=mac+os+10.5&_sc=1&rt=nc

Retail 10.5 Leopard disk that will install on any Mac.

Gray Install disks that are machine specific.

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vdubbeet Author

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Jun 10, 2012 1:13 AM in response to frederic1943

Thank you everyone. I've made up my mind that it's just not worth it to me. I think I'm going to look for a newer model and possibly go with a macbook instead of an ibook. I appreciate your help. Have a great weekend!

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