I have a customer that wants to install some new software on his Mac but the new software requires a higher version of OS X than is installed.

How do you upgrade the OS X from 10.3.9 to at least 10.4.9? Is there an online way to do this or do you have to order a CD?

Thanks in advance.

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I have a customer that wants to install some new software on his Mac but the new software requires a higher version of OS X than is installed.

How do you upgrade the OS X from 10.3.9 to at least 10.4.9? Is there an online way to do this or do you have to order a CD?

Thanks in advance.

They will have to get a copy of the Tiger DVD update the computer OS.

One possible source is here.
http://store.fastmac.com/product_info.php?cPath=10_5_7&products_id=109

I cannot guarantee it will work though.

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I have a customer that wants to install some new software on his Mac but the new software requires a higher version of OS X than is installed.

How do you upgrade the OS X from 10.3.9 to at least 10.4.9? Is there an online way to do this or do you have to order a CD?

Thanks in advance.

10.4.9 is Tiger.
You can buy an old-stock retail copy on-line & then do software update online via Desktop > apple icon(upper left corner) >software update.

Or...upgrade to Leopard 10.5.x by purchasing a new retail copy online from Apple or visit your local apple store & then check for updates on line as above. Current is 10.5.4

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But how do you tell it that is what you want to do? I did do the software update step today and all it offered to update was QuickTime, iTunes, and a couple of other things that had nothing to do with the OS.

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But how do you tell it that is what you want to do? I did do the software update step today and all it offered to update was QuickTime, iTunes, and a couple of other things that had nothing to do with the OS.

Your customer is running Panther on his Mac, the only way to get to Tiger is to purchase the DVD and install.

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But how do you tell it that is what you want to do? I did do the software update step today and all it offered to update was QuickTime, iTunes, and a couple of other things that had nothing to do with the OS.

Your customer is running Panther on his Mac, the only way to get to Tiger is to purchase the DVD and install.

Thsnks arkayn, one last question. Can you go directly from the Panther version to the 10.5.x Leopard version that Gecko mentioned or do you have to upgrade to Tiger before you can do Leopard?

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But how do you tell it that is what you want to do? I did do the software update step today and all it offered to update was QuickTime, iTunes, and a couple of other things that had nothing to do with the OS.

Your customer is running Panther on his Mac, the only way to get to Tiger is to purchase the DVD and install.

Thsnks arkayn, one last question. Can you go directly from the Panther version to the 10.5.x Leopard version that Gecko mentioned or do you have to upgrade to Tiger before you can do Leopard?

Leopard can be installed directly without having to install Tiger.

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I am moving from an intel to a PPC iBook (need the portability for work) and I have 2 questions:

Can I continue to crunch on the PPC platform (can't find any info re: system/platform requirements)? And if so, do I just re-download the software from BOINQ and still be able to log-in as me - will all of the tasks currently running on my mini have to be reassigned? Or will everything stay as is? I have had to migrate everything manually because the migration assistant doesn't recognize going From an intel To a PPC and won't do it. Any other applications I have tried to manually migrate don't work, so I've had to re-download and re-register everything!

I am wiping the mini for re-sale this weekend and don't want to lose everything.

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I am moving from an intel to a PPC iBook (need the portability for work) and I have 2 questions:

Can I continue to crunch on the PPC platform (can't find any info re: system/platform requirements)? And if so, do I just re-download the software from BOINQ and still be able to log-in as me - will all of the tasks currently running on my mini have to be reassigned? Or will everything stay as is? I have had to migrate everything manually because the migration assistant doesn't recognize going From an intel To a PPC and won't do it. Any other applications I have tried to manually migrate don't work, so I've had to re-download and re-register everything!

I am wiping the mini for re-sale this weekend and don't want to lose everything.

The work is assigned to the mini so you will need to set it to no new work and crunch out all remaining units. Then disconnect from the project on mini.

The software is a universal binary and works on both PPC and Intel.

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