Driver upgrades possible for iMac

I am fairly new to Mac and recently purchased a new iMac. I have a question regarding the display driver. Is there a way of upgrading the display driver for MacOS, NOT Bootcamp? I did a search and I see drivers on the Apple site, but the file dates back to 2005. The display on my iMac is the ATI Radeon HD 4670.
Thanks.

Hi ZS
Go up on the menu bar to Apple > Software Update and check, but to be honest the latest iMac should be fully up to date except for maybe the most recent Safari 5.0.1 release.
Dennis

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It is possible to upgrade your RAM and hard drive and install a fairly recent version of OS X on your Powerbook, but I wouldn't call it worthwhile. You'll spend as much or more doing so as the machine is worth afterward.
Your machine is now over nine and a half years old (it was released in January 2001). It has a DVD-ROM drive, so it can't burn CDs or DVDs unless you replace that drive, and its non-upgradeable graphics processor is completely obsolete for any sort of multimedia or streaming video on today's websites, or for gaming. Its CPU, blazing fast for a notebook of its time, is ten to forty times slower than the ones in today's Macs.
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lots of great info on the site and very helpful just with what I've found.
Could not find anything that tells me what version of OSX I could possibly upgrade to that would help both my machines.
I need to upgrade to 10.5 for blackberry app to work. Not sure if I can find and use a version of 10.5 that will allow me to updgrade both my 10.3.x Ibook G3 AND my Imac (Intel) running 10.4.11. I do realize that Ibook will not be able to run Leopard.
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Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
The combined update for Mac OS X 10.3 (to 10.3.9) for the iBook can be found at this link:
http://www.apple.com/support/panther/
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