I have an iBook G4, its current OS is 10.4.11(tiger i think) i cant update itunes past 9.2 which is a big problem for my new ipod touch 4th gen! please help me someone!

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I have an iBook G4, its current OS is 10.4.11(tiger i think) i cant update itunes past 9.2 which is a big problem for my new ipod touch 4th gen! please help me someone!

hello, i have an iBook G4 which is old, it has an OS of 10.4.11 which is called tiger i think, forgive me im new to apple,

it has a version of itunes installed (9.2) which worked fine with my 1st gen ipod touch but ive upgraded to a 4th gen ipod touch and now my itunes version is no longer compatible, the problem is that because my os is out of date i cant install the current version of itunes so i think i need to upgrade my OS.

Like i say im quite new to apple so any help or information would be greatly appreciated. thank you

iBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on Dec 29, 2012 12:20 PM

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Niel

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Dec 29, 2012 12:33 PM in response to misterob1

Buy a Mac OS X 10.5 DVD from a source such as Amazon or eBay.

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Dec 29, 2012 1:13 PM in response to misterob1

As Niel has suggested Mac OS X 10.5 Lepaord.

But first of all make sure that your iBook is above 800Mhz and you have at least 512 Meg of memory. (1 GB recommended)

Please note, that if you do install Mac OS X 10.5 on your iBook, it will not allow you to install the latest version of iTunes version 11. The most recent version of iTunes that can be installed would be 10.5, which will be compatible with your iPod touch 4th gen, provided it's not been updated to iOS 6.

Sadly you can't install any version of Mac OS X above 10.5 Leopard, as it they requires an Intel processor, which your iBook G4 does not have.

Hope this helps.

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misterob1 Author

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Dec 29, 2012 1:30 PM in response to Knucklesmac

hi thanks for the info, ive just checked and the ipod is still running 5.0.1 will this be ok, also ive checked all the other system requirements you suggested and it all looks good to go for the upgrade.

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misterob1 Author

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Dec 29, 2012 1:32 PM in response to Niel

do you know roughly how much i should be looking to pay for the dvd niel, and roughly how long it takes to complete the upgrade,

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Answer 5

Dec 29, 2012 1:37 PM in response to misterob1

Your iPod Touch will sync fine with that version of iTunes.

Once you have upgraded Mac OS X to 10.5, you will need to update the version of iTunes.

Make sure you update the version of Quick TIme to 7.5 from the Apple download site. http://support.apple.com/downloads/

I recall having that problem when I updated my version of iTunes on my PowerBook. It wouldn't run until I updated Quick Time.

Best of luck 🙂

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misterob1 Author

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Dec 29, 2012 1:41 PM in response to Knucklesmac

hey knucklesmac, you know you said about 800mhz, is that Bus speed or my CPU speed, because my bus speed says 133mhz and my cpu says 1.33GHz

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Answer 7

Dec 29, 2012 1:45 PM in response to misterob1

Not the bus speed, but the CPU speed. So if it's 1.33Ghz, then it's fine.

The reason for saying above 800Mhz, there was one iBook G4 model, that had a 800Mhz processor.

The actual system requirements for Leopard is 867 Mhz. and above. 🙂

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