MAC OS X 10.2.8 Upgrade

You may be able to call AppleCare or Sales support & ask

for an operating system specialist, to assist in the location

of replacement OS X Tiger 10.4 and OS X Leopard 10.5

system installers on white plain-label DVD discs. There had

been some talk of this, in the Apple discussions several

times and some persons said they got one or both for a

modest fee of near $20. each. These were not specific

to a certain computer model but appeared to be for the

range of older PowerPC Macs where no original grey disc

systems were available.

When you call to ask about this, be sure to have your

computer's serial number avaiable to tell the specialist

& hope they know what I've mentioned here. Not all do

so the results may vary depending on who you talk to.

Or, it is possible they may stop offering them w/o notice.

The other option if you can't get someone with Apple to

help you find these, to buy one or both, is a bit more

steep and may be difficult. The original Retail discs may

cost quite a bit (up to real money) and are harder to find.

So, the upgrade path to each major system is historicaly

an install disc for the optical drive, after the 1998 iMac

with the tray drive CD/DVD, and no floppy disc drive...

And now, the more recent ones don't have a DVD drive.

Upgrades are the DVD media, updates are the Combo

update downloads from Software Update. And depending

on the build model identifier, year, configuration, etc the

highest OS X upgrade a PPC G4/G5 may go is 10.5.8.

Even upgraded as far as they go, the PowerPC Macs are

difficult to use if you can't find a suitable browser, or do

not use webmail (& aren't at least to Tiger 10.4.11.)

If you had Tiger, or Leopard, a fair browser is TenFourFox

or iCab, or SeaMonkey for PPC. Flash player is vintage.

{Another upgrade path is to seek a later architecture that

can run a newer operating system, an Intel-based Mac.}

Hopefully this helps.

Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

Can you tell us more about your 2003 iMac?

To find out info about your system,

Click on the Apple symbol in the upper left of the OS X main menu bar. A drop down menu appears.

Click About this Mac. A smaller popup window appears. This gives you basic info like what version of OS X your iMac is running, the speed of your iMac's CPU and how much RAM is installed. Include this info in your next reply.

Click on the button that says More Info. A larger window appears giving you a complete overview of your iMac's hardware specs.

Highlight all of this info and copy/paste all of this into another reply to this post, editing out your iMac's serial number before actually posting the reply.

This will tell us everything about your iMac so we may begin to help with your iMac issues.

ThanX