Upgrading OSX 10.3 Panther to 10.5 Leopard

AppleUser2009 · 22 May 2009 at 14:49

Hi everybody,

I have an iMac, purchased in December 2003, with a 1.25GHz G4 proccessor, 120GB Hard Drive and 1 Gb of RAM, it was supplied with OSX Panther and I have applied all the on line updates to get me to version 10.3.9.

I want to upgrade to the latest version of iTunes but now apparently need to upgrade my operating system to support this.

I understand that OSX has moved up from 10.3 Panther through 10.4 Tiger and is now at 10.5 Leopard.

My question is . . . if I purchase the new Leopard OSX 10.5 operating system software, can I upgrade from Panther all the way to Leopard or do I need to purchase the intermediate Tiger software and upgrade to that first.

If anybody out there who knows the answer to this/has experienced this I would be very pleased to hear about it

Regards

AppleUser2009

NickK · 22 May 2009 at 14:56

If you buy Leopard as a retail DVD then you install leopard (no other OS versions are required).

I bought my MBP with Tiger, then bought Leopard separately. The leopard DVD doesn't require Tiger.

Note - with the MBP you get Tiger + iLife however the Leopard DVD is only the OS with standard apps (no iLife). So if I want iPhoto I have to use the Tiger DVD to install the iLife applications.

Will_3rd · 23 May 2009 at 16:52

Should just be a straight upgrade from 10.3 to 10.5, no need to use Tiger.

mdjmcnally · 23 May 2009 at 17:51

Probably worth looking at the Mac Box set depending if you want to upgrade iLife Apps as well and get iWorks updated.

You won't however be able to use iMovie as requires G5 or Intel Mac.

If all you are bothered about is OSX and iTunes then not worth getting the box set and just buy a retail Leopard DVD.