Alright I know I am not the most cutting edge person but here's what happened. My iPod died and I was down at the apple store looking at those cool iPod touches. I almost bought one but I decided to make sure I was going to be able to get all my old itunes stuff on there. I am running MAC OS 10.3.9 on an iMac G4. Anyway it turns out you need iTunes 8.0, for the touch, and to run that you need at least system 10.4.

Any suggestions?

Word is that tiger is inherently faster than panther, for older systems it is a good idea to disable dashboard & spotlight.


[edit] tiger - see? where does it say leopard?

You say get Leopard, but I don't think it will work on my PowerPC G4...
I know I know... built in obsolescence and all that but this computer works great for everything I need it to do.
With the exception of running iTunes version 8.0 that is.

Just max out the RAM in your machine and use Leopard. Can't hurt.

dual boot Panther/Tiger?

I have loaded 10.4 on machines as old as the Bondi Blue iMac G3 with 196mb RAM. It runs fairly well considering the equipment that it's on. The main reason behind Apple's 10.4 requirements is that indexing the hard drive for spotlight consumes a lot of resources, but a G4 iMac is more than powerful enough. Load it on there and if it feels sluggish, check for a dot inside the spotlight icon on the top-right corner of the screen. If a dot is there, this means that its indexing your hard drive for spotlight search. Give it some time and wait until it finishes indexing your drive. After that is complete, if it still feels sluggish, check out a guide at macosxhints (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050504012104186) that will tell you how to disable spotlight. If you have at least 256mb of RAM, I'd leave it running as it is an extremely useful feature.

10.4 also lets you run newer versions of Safari, QuickTime, Java, and FireFox. This will open up so many more websites for you and less Safari crashes than with 10.3. Panther was great for its time, but for an older PPC, Tiger is most def. the way to go.

Oh and more importantly for you, Tiger will run iTunes 8...

on this type of machine i rec tiger

The system requirements of the PowerPC edition are:

* A PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor running at 333 MHz or more
* Built-in FireWire
* At least 256 MB of RAM
* At least 3 GB of available hard disk space; 4 GB of disk space including the Xcode 2 Tools
* DVD drive