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need 10.3 to upgrade?
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think back to the past everyone. i just looked on amazon's site and they sell a 10.4 upgrade disc for macs but they say you need 10.3 already installed to upgrade from. i seem to remember that all you need is a previous version of osx. (for the record, i have two macs i would like to upgrade, one is running 10.3.9 and the other is running 10.2.8.) neither have the processor speed to run 10.5. is amazon's information accurate?
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Macs sold after the release of a new OS but boxed before the release had upgrade discs thrown into the box. I don't recall exactly how picky each one was to be honest but the older ones were less so.
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AFAIK 10.4 was a full price upgrade, meaning the CD should work just fine on its own.
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The the disc is black, its a proper retail copy and will install fine on its own, if its grey YMMV.
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MacBook 2.0GHz CD; MacBook Pro 15" 2.4GHz Late '08; PowerMac G4 MDD Dual 1GHz; 3x Xserve G4 1GHz; Mac Mini 2GHz; Big pile of broken and working bits;
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If it's grey, it's not an upgrade disk at all, but a bundled disk that will only work on machines of the series it came with.
If it's black, it can EITHER be a full upgrade (in which case you can install it on a naked disk, or 10.2., or whatever), OR a "drop-in CPU upgrade" (in which case it checks whether the previous version is installed).
It will say on the disk.
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thanks guys. you gave me something to look out for while i'm doing my shopping.
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imac g3 600
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