Bruins04

I have OS X 10.5.8
What is the latest update I should be going for?

My system is a 2.1 core Due with 2.5 GB

Thanks for the input.

__________________
 13" MacBook White
 16gig iPhone Black
 8gig iPhone Black

Andrew Pratt

That should actually be a Core2 Duo in which case you can install Lion if you like which would take you up to 10.7

__________________
His: 13" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz i5, 16 GB Ram, dual 1TB drives in RAID 0 & iPhone5
Hers: 13" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz i5, 8GB Ram & iPhone5
Family: iMac 20", iPad2, AppleTV3, Airport Extreme & Express

chas_m

Andrew's answer needs a little elaboration:

IF your system is in fact a Core2Duo and not just a Core Duo, THEN you can buy a Snow Leopard retail disk ($30) and upgrade to it (10.6.x). After doing the free updates to get you to 10.6.8, you can THEN spend $30 on the Mac App Store (which you'll get as part of Snow) to upgrade to Lion (10.7.x).

If your system is a Core Duo (no "2") then the farthest you can go is Snow Leopard.

__________________
Cheers
chas_m

Our life in Victoria BC • Music blog • My Podcast • Film blog
Victoria Macintosh Users Group

Bruins04

it's a 2.1 Intel Core 2 Due

__________________
 13" MacBook White
 16gig iPhone Black
 8gig iPhone Black

Andrew Pratt

Then you can upgrade up to Lion as per Chas's post. You may want to check though and see what software you have that isn't compatible with Lion. Any old PowerPC apps will not work in Lion.

__________________
His: 13" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz i5, 16 GB Ram, dual 1TB drives in RAID 0 & iPhone5
Hers: 13" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz i5, 8GB Ram & iPhone5
Family: iMac 20", iPad2, AppleTV3, Airport Extreme & Express

Bruins04

I finally purchased a copy of Snow Leopard.
To do an install I just do a back up, then install?
Will I have to reinstall any programs? ie. iWorks?

Looking forward to the new (old) updates.

Thanks

__________________
 13" MacBook White
 16gig iPhone Black
 8gig iPhone Black

rgray

deleted

__________________
"not all those who wander are lost….." j.r.r. tolkien

Bruins04

So when I do a restore from my back up my itunes & iphoto & documents will all return to the way they are now?
I will also have to reinstall iworks, toast & any other programs, correct?

__________________
 13" MacBook White
 16gig iPhone Black
 8gig iPhone Black

HowEver

If you have Mobile Me, and haven't upgraded to iCloud yet, Apple will send you a FREE Mac OSX DVD for Snow Leopard (shipped for free, also).

Check here:

http://www.me.com/snow-leopard

__________________
...
For sale:
Indigo iBooks, enquire within

Bruins04

I wish I knew this before I purchased it.
Will they do this with Lion?

__________________
 13" MacBook White
 16gig iPhone Black
 8gig iPhone Black