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b.trovato · Mar 30, 2010, 12:34 AM

My mac mini has a Power PC G4 processor. I have just installed 10.5.6 but see I that 10.5.8 is required to support the ipad. Since i have just bought 10.5.6 wonder if there is a way be to upgrade to 10.5.8 without buying yet another retail installer. Sorry if this is a totally stupid question and thanks for your reply!

Big Mac · 02:40 PM

10.5.8 is a free update. The only paid upgrades in OS X are for the major milestone release: 10.1 (although it was a freebie upgrade exception), 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 etc. All the releases between them are free. You should see 10.5.8 it in Software Update.

adamfishercox · Mar 30, 2010, 01:06 PM

Apple Menu > Software Update.

Big Mac · Mar 30, 2010, 03:00 PM

The reason why b.trovato was having problems was due to a lack of free disk space (he PMed me).