upgrade OS 10.3 to 10.4.x on 2004 G5.

[sovweeren]

Dear,

I just got my brother's 2004 G5 installed, which runs on OS 10.3. Is it technically possible to download OS 10.4 (guess still Tiger) from the Apple site? Do I need a regular installation CD-rom or is it not possible at all?

As you can hear from my question I'm a total rookie if it comes to Apple.

thank you very much.


Stephan
NL

 

[Cheryl]

Welcome to the forums.

You will need the disk of 10.4 in order to install. Any downloads are the updates.
There are some web sites that might still have it.

 

[sovweeren]

Dear Cheryil,

Thank you so much for you help. I will have a look at sites where I can still buy them. Do you think the 2004 G5 is strong enough to run the 10.4 version?

And od I need Leopard, Tiger or any other wild cat-version?

thnx!


Stephan

 

[pds]

But - might as well go to 10.5. The machine will run Leopard well, if you max out the ram.

 

[MisterMe]

But - might as well go to 10.5. The machine will run Leopard well, if you max out the ram.

There are a few titles that MacOS X 10.5 will run that MacOS X 10.4 won't. If the OP needs Classic, however, then she should go with MacOS X 10.4 because it is not supported under MacOS X 10.5.

 

[nixgeek]

Agreed with MisterMe. Unless you need to run apps in Classic, Leopard would be the way to go. I'll be upgrading my iMac G5 to Leopard sometime soon since I really have no need to run Classic apps anymore.