Need advice on upgrading to Leopard.

Hello
I am thinking of upgrading from Tiger to Leopard, but i was wondering what benefits it would give me?
My specs:
iBook G4
1.5 GB DDR SDRAM Memory
1.42 GHz Power PC G4 Processor
60GB Hard Drive
Any contributions are welcome!
Thanks
Nat

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Cornelius, clearly you know your Macs!
Thank you. I have great mentors, one of whom is Kappy.
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You have options.
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2. You can copy your OS 9 Systems Folder, OS 9 Applications Folder and any data you have have to a USB jump drive, or CD or an external Hard Disk Drive and restore it after Panther or Tiger is installed.
3. You can install OS 9 from scratch. We will give you step by step directions for doing it.
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So, do you have any advice about how I can synch my MacBookPro calendar with my iPhone?
Apple has incorporated features like that into iCloud, then restricted that to only users of 10.7 Lion as leverage. They won't allow iCloud on 10.6 because people wouldn't upgrade. 10.6 runs a lot of expensive previously purchased software that there isn't a upgrade out yet. If people install Lion anyway on older hardware it slows most machines down and that encourages them to buy a new Mac prematurely. So you see what's going on here.
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Not to praise Microsoft, but they do support 10 year old XP still, 5 year old Vista and Windows 7 is going to be supported for at least 10 years or even longer. Windows 8 is going to run Windows 7 software too. So with Windows PC you can run your hardware until it drops dead, buy your software once every 10 years.
Apple has this crazy notion that we all should be replacing our hardware and expensive software on a 3 year basis. When in reality properly taken care of Mac hardware can last a decade easily, I have a XP friend who's Dell desktop is over 10 years old and still works fine.
If your a luxury consumer and just use your Mac for the basics, can keep up with the 3-4 year expensive hardware and software changes, then buy all means buy a new Mac with Lion and get iCloud and then sync to your iPhone. Use the old Mac as backup for software that isn't ready for 10.7 yet.
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Apple prefers to cater to the luxury consumer more than the "Pro" market because the luxury consumer can be leveraged to buy hardware on a faster upgrade cycle. The Pro user is trying to make money and therefore thinks more longterm to extract value out of their purchases.
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bustercharlie wrote:
I am going to upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard (Bundle Pack) and from iPhoto 6 to iPhoto 8. My wife and I have separate accounts on our MacBook Pro and I have combined our iPhoto Libraries onto an external hard drive using iPhoto Library Manager. Afterwards, I opened the Mac HD icon on my desktop, opened the pictures folder, went through the iPhoto Library folder, and opened the Originals folder. I deleted my photos through here which kept the thumbnail data (when I open iPhoto, I can see all of my photos, I just can't enlarge them beyond a certain size or I get a grayed out image with an exclamation point). I have since done the same for some of my wife's photos to free up space. This has been sort of useful to know what photos we have while not eating up the hard drive.
How do I install iLife '09 with a clean iPhoto Library? I do not care about seeing thumbnails anymore. However, is it possible to keep the thumbnails on my wife's account? When I open the iPhoto Library on the external HD, will it automatically convert it to the updated version?
Installing iPhoto '09 will work smoothly and seamlessly for operating libraries - I have no idea how it will react to the ones your have corrupted but suspect that it will upgrade them so they will operate in the same crippled way they do now
To have a fresh library you depress the option key and launch iPhoto and use new library option
An Apple Tech once told me that altering the iPhoto database like I did can corrupt it
that is correct as you see when you try to enlarge a photo in the libraries you have modified
and they have since removed that ability in the latest version of iPhoto.
not removed but made more difficult so it is less like to happen by mistake - you can still do it in a number of ways but it is not a good idea
I know I screwed it up and am unsure about the best approach once I do upgrade. Any advice is much appreciated.
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Brooke:
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
I am not able to identify your computer exactly. Can you tell me if it is 15", 17" or 20". Until we can identify it exactly I can't tell you exactly what RAM modules you need.
However, you can upgrade your OS to either Panther (10.3x) or Tiger (10.4x) The move from Jaguar to Panther to Tiger is an upgrade which involves purchasing new software disks. You can download updates once you have the basic software installed, but the initial installation is from disks you have to purchase. See Software update, upgrade--what's the difference?.
To upgrade to Panther or Tiger your computer will need to meet the minimum system requirements: for Panther or for Tiger.
Then you will need to purchase the Full Retail version of Panther or Tiger. Computer specific or upgrade versions should be avoided as they can cause problems. Besides, it is a violation of the Software License Agreement which statesThis License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single computer at a time. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a time...Tiger can be purchased from the Apple Store and Panther (or Tiger on CDs) can be purchased from applerescue.
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Need advice about upgrades

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mid 2012 15.4", 4GB, 500 GB HHD i7 2.3 GHz.
The MBP you purchased for your daughter is an excellent computer. May I suggest getting the additional RAM from OWC or Crucial. A 16GB kit is currently $125 and you can upgrade it yourself. I'd keep the 500GB hard drive (not get an SSD) and instead invest in an external drive for backup and extra storage. (BTW, did you get AppleCare with this MBP. If not, I'd certainly recommend it.)
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Hi Hussein :
Just some clarification needed. I'm setting up a new EBS r12 instance
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Total upgrade price : 430$ includes shipping etc..
Price of a new iMac :1,299.00 (same kit except it's a core duo 2ghz and I wouldn't know what to do with my 21" screen. I have no place to use it as a second display)
new G5 tower : 2,899.00 (which would give me the lattitude of adding multiple hard drives)
I didn't do any research in finding a newer G4 cause I treated my G4 very well still looks new! I would've had to upgrade the graphic's card and such... So I think the best deal was to upgrade with new parts and give it another 5 years or so.
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I'm about to move to Leopard on my main production platform. Here are some (possibly dumb) questions:
1. Is there any way to end up with a Tiger/Leopard platform which uses the same user directories? Ideally, I'd like to be able to move between OSen and have the same user data available.
2. The machine has 4 internal drives. I plan to use Bootcamp and install Vista dedicating one of these (250 GB) drives to Vista. Sugestions? Cautions?
3. The most important production applications I use are CS3 and FCS 3. What do I need to worry about?
4. Anything else?
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Some answers that may inspire further questions.
Item number 1. You CAN use the same user directories. In the Leopard User Accounts pref pane, ctrl click on a user name in the user name list to the left and you will get a menu offering "Advanced...". In the Advanced config, you can tell Leopard that the path for a users home directory is somewhere else. Just navigate to your existing User account and choose it. BIG CAUTION!!! This will cause a lot of grief if the user's UID are different between the two systems. UIDs are typically assigned in order, so you would need to create the users accounts in the exact same order in order to make this work. Otherwise, when changing OSs, you might find that you no longer own your own files under one or the other OS. I believe the best way to assure this comes out right would be to do an Archive and Install migrating user accounts. That should keep both OS version connected to the same accounts. This requires you to have enough room on a single disk for Tiger, Leopard and all your accounts.
Caution number two. Leopard will end up updating library pref files and setting for your apps to a Leopard format. If you switch OSs, Tiger may not be too happy with an occasional change. Be prepared for a little bit of weirdness if you keep going back and forth and expect to fully run each version.
Item number 2. Should work. I would make sure to disable Spotlight indexing on the boot camp drive. Also make sure Time Machine excludes that drive. It was defaulted to excluded for me, but your mileage may vary.
Item number 3, Sorry no experience there.
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I need advice on upgrading my iMac PowerPc G4

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My computer is running pretty slow while on the internet. My young children get booted out of websites like Webkinz.com while they are using it. Certain computer games they cannot use at all - too slow (could this be the graphics causing this?)
Is it cost efficient to upgrade, and will it help these issues? I'm not sure which components should be upgraded to help these issues - the operating system, the graphics card, the RAM, something else??
Machine Model: iMac
Operating: Mac OS X (10.3.9)
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (3.3)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.25 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
Memory: 256 MB (DIMM1/J20), Empty (DIMM0/J22)
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Graphics Crd: nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 64MB

karen,
Do you know if the existing 256 RAM can/should be replaced with 1GB or should I only use the empty slot and put 1GM RAM in there? I couldn't find more than 1GB on the OWC sales website
Well there's only one user accessible slot. It's empty right now:
Memory: 256 MB (DIMM1/J20), *Empty (DIMM0/J22)*
That's why OWC only lists the 1 GB. If you put a 1GB in there you'll have 1.25 GB and be good to go.
The other slot can also be upgraded to 1 GB making 2 GB total.
If you go here:
http://www.lowendmac.com/imacs/17in-imac-g4-1.25-ghz.html
RAM: 256 MB, expandable to 2 GB using PC2700 (333 MHz) DDR SDRAM (officially supported to 1 GB by Apple)
That other memory slot is inside the iMac and it's not a trivial job to open it up and get to that slot.
Be very careful inserting that RAM stick Make very sure the retaining fingers are able to slide aside (might need help) some of the later models with plastic retaining fingers have been broken by people posting here while inserting their memory.
Richard

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I have a mac mini on tiger at the moment, and have the leopard install discs from a macbook pro, one of which is the macbook pro driver CD (which I obviously would not use)
My question is do I need a driver disk for the mac mini, or can I just install leopard on it with the CD and it will be ok? Can't seem to find this anywhere on the internet, and I would've naturally thought I would require a driver CD, but others have said you don't need one to upgrade to leopard...
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Sure, I understand that I can't use the leopard one I have - Thanks
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I have a hdd from a late 2009 mbp. I upgraded from leopard to snow leopard to lion to mountain lion. Now I want to upgrade to a ssd. Do I need to purchase a new copy of mountain lion to go on my new ssd? If I don't, then what is the procedure to transfer mountain lion with my 4 user accounts onto the new ssd from the hdd?
I'm confused on if I can use the recovery hd on a thumb drive to install mountain lion on my ssd. Will it be pheasible with so many OS X upgrades? And then how do I get my user accounts onto the ssd from the hdd. Do I use migration assistant? Do I need to make a time machine backup first? Should I use something called Carbon Clone or something like that?
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If you have a cable that connects and external HDD to the MBP, it will do. If it is something like this, an enclosure will not be needed for the swap:
An enclosure allows you to use your old HDD for storage or backup purposes. The cable will not.
Here are instructions as to how the swap can be performed using DISK UTITY. Substitute You cable for the enclosure in same:
INSTALLING A NEW HDD IN A MBP
1. Make certain that you have backed up all of your important data.
2. You will need a HDD enclosure. One with a USB connection will do. A 9 pin Firewire is better.
3. Install your new drive in the enclosure and connect it to your MBP.
4. Open DISK UTILITY>ERASE. From the left hand column drag the new drive into the 'Name' field. Make sure that the format is 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)'. Click on the 'Erase' button.
5. Click on the 'Restore' button (on top). Drag the old drive into the 'Source' field and the new drive into the 'Destination' field. Click on the 'Restore' button on the bottom right hand corner.
Depending upon the amount of data you are transferring, this may take a couple hours or more. A Firewire will speed up the transfer. This will result in both drives having identical information on them.
6. After the data transfer has completed, you may swap the drives. Start the MBP and you have finished the installation. The initial boot may take a bit longer than you are accustomed to, but that is normal.
7. When you are satisfied that the new hard drive if functioning properly, you can erase the old drive and use it for any needs that you may have.
If there is any confusion on your part, post back.
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