Trying to upgrade to 10.4.7 from 10.3.9 but not working please help!

Question

ok so first off I have no problem with panther. I have been happy with my powerbook b4 titanium for the past 6 years now. but now that I went and bought a new iphone 3G , my powerbook doesn't support it. fortunately I converted my parents over to mac last year and they have a i-mac that does support it. but I dont want to have to go to their place to sync my iphone ... I am going to buy another mac even though I really dont want to spend the money but for the time being I need the help to get tiger on this laptop.
here are the specs
powerbook g4 titanium
667 MHz powerPC G4
1MB L3 cache
512MB RAM
OSX 10.3.9
ok so I have 2 CD's for OSX 10.4.7
I put the first CD in and I get the big error screen and the last command or statement darwin makes is "we are hanging here" what ever that means. but thats all it will do. the cd reads fine while OSX is up and reading files.
any ideas?

Answer 1

I hate to interrupt your fuming, Joshua, but those Apple "nazis" do still sell Tiger as of a few days ago. Call 1-800-SOS-APPL and ask for Phone Sales (not iPhone sales, but a sales department that only operates over the phone, not through the online store).
As for "I just love how they dont support older products anymore," I think if you look around a little, you'll discover that Microsoft doesn't sell outdated versions of its OS any more, and most car manufacturers aren't selling their 2005 car models any more either. In fact the practice of not selling discontinued, superseded products is standard across most industries. Apple's continued selling of Tiger long after the introduction of Leopard is quite unusual.
And as for the "nazi" practice of not allowing you to install Tiger on your Powerbook from the Intel iMac's discs, the machines use entirely different architectures, and the iMac discs are configured specifically for the Intel architecture. The OS on them is also licensed for use on only one computer, not multiple computers, as you would know if you read the license agreement. And while you may never have encountered this limitation before, the discs that are shipped with every Mac have always, since the mac's earliest days, been specific to that machine model and, in all but a few exceptional (and accidental) cases, unusable on any other model. Apple has never changed this longstanding policy/practice. It's nothing new.