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Am I understanding this right?
It would be best if someone could lay out all my options for me...as clear as possible, please!!
Thank you!
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Hi Ashley,
You can upgrade to the latest version of OS X (which is 10.4.3) by buying a Tiger Upgrade DVD (for about $120-130). You do not need your original installation CDs to perform the installation. You insert the Upgrade DVD into your CD-ROM drive and take it from there.
However, if you ever need to re-install OS X for some reason, you would need your original installation CDs. The Upgrade version of Tiger installs on top of an existing version of Jaguar (10.2.x) or Panther (10.3.x). So, if you had to re-install, you would first need to put Jaguar back onto your machine and then you would perform the upgrade to Tiger.
Most people probably never have to do a re-install and don't want to think about it. But if you read the forums for a few days, you will see that there are a variety of hardware and software problems that people have which do require a re-install. So, you might want to think about what you would do if such a situation arose. For that, I think your options are:
1) You search around some more and find your installation CDs.
2) You buy a backup harddrive and do a regular backup of your system.
A couple of other options might be: you buy a used copy of Jaguar that will work on your eMac (for instance, on eBay). Perhaps there is the possibility to buy a full install version of Tiger. However, I have never seen this listed. If it were available, it would probably be pretty pricey.
I would encourage you to look for your CDs and also to plan on doing some backing up. The backing up also saves your valuable data if you were ever so unfortunate as to have a failure of your hard drive. For a backup harddrive, I would consider a firewire drive, on which you can install a bootable version of your system.
I hope this answers your questions. If not, ask again.
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