IBook G4 upgradeable?

My son is using my iBook G-4 running Panther 10.3.9, and wants to know if he can upgrade to Tiger or even Leopard. Can that iBook handle the upgrade? If so, what's the process and the cost?
TIA

To burn a DVD movie these days would most likely require a drive that can burn Dual Layer (DL) disks. However, one does not need to be able to burn them to read them.
If it will read a current DVD movie it should be able to read either the single layer Tiger DVD or the dual layer Leopard DVD.
So now you need to find out about RAM and processor speed. While Tiger requirements are lower I have noticed that Leopard does benefit quite a bit from high amounts of both RAM and processor speed. Check the Apple System Profiler for details on that system and go from there.

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