OS X 10.5 Leopard, where?

dymetrie · 8 Sep 2010 at 21:20

Mrs Dym has an old iBook G4 which is currently running OS X 10.4.11 Tiger, but she's just found out that the latest version of iTunes needs 10.5.

Looking at the Apple site I can see that her Mac should run Leopard without a problem, but Apple don't seem to sell it anymore.

Google gives me results of either £10 or £160, but I don't know which of these would be required!

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Dym

Vonhelmet · 9 Sep 2010 at 09:05

£10 is volume license pricing, so you probably can't use that.

Didn't realise it was so expensive!

Try ebay - it looks like it goes for about £60-100. There's a fair few up at the moment on Buy It Now or Best Offer. Try sticking in offers of about £70 and see if anyone goes for it.

dymetrie · 11 Sep 2010 at 08:03

Cheers for the advice, will have a look around to see what I can find which looks legit (and then see if Mrs Dym is willing to pay that much!).

Not overly surprised at the price, considering Windows XP still goes for ~£70 and Vista for ~£100!

PardonTheWait · 11 Sep 2010 at 08:38

On the upside it's not serialised. So there is no worry with a second hand copy that the other user hasn't deactivated it, that it will give you trouble registering, and so on. It'll just work. It would also work if you just borrowed it off someone.

theheyes · 11 Sep 2010 at 18:41

dymetrie said:
Not overly surprised at the price, considering Windows XP still goes for ~£70 and Vista for ~£100!

Vista is still fully supported, while Leopard only receives security updates so it's still a lot if you pay over £100 for it.

For what it's worth 10.5 ran ok on my iBook G4 - no more, no less.

The question is does she really need iTunes 10? Whichever way you cut it it's an expensive upgrade...