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Flagheimer · Nov 1, 2007, 03:08 AM

Dumb question --- I want to upgrade my old PowerBook G4 when I fix the Hard Drive, but it's been running 10.3 since 2004...

mjankor · Nov 1, 2007, 03:11 AM

No you don't. There's actually no such thing as a Leopard upgrade DVD. They are all full versions. (Ultimate versions too

) I'd do an archive and install though.

Flagheimer · Nov 1, 2007, 03:45 AM

Sounds groovy.

Oh yeah, I didn't mean "fix my hard drive"... I meant replace my hard drive.

bowwowman · Nov 1, 2007, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by mjankor

No you don't. There's actually no such thing as a Leopard upgrade DVD. They are all full versions. (Ultimate versions too

) I'd do an archive and install though.

uuummm........technically, there ARE upgrade disks, but only the ones they throw in the box if you bought a new mac in the past 2 weeks or so after 10.5's release, or until the machines start shipping with it pre-installed from the factory, which hopefully wont be long

But OTOH, ALL the RETAIL disk are full versions, that do NOT require any previous version of OS X to be present already and will install on any supported machine.......