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Old May 29th, 2008, 04:20 PM
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ipod nano 3rd generation

Hi,
My daughter was given a refurbished ipod nano for her 21st birthday. As far as I can tell it is a 3rd generation, 4GB. She has an iBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.3.9. It has a 933MHz PowerPC G4 processor. 640 MB DDR SDRAM. She has 16.4 GB of storage left. The itunes is version 7.6.2 .The ipod says it can't run without Tiger 10.4 which I have on disk. I tried loading it and all it says is it can't load on this computer. Is there any hope? I'm thinking maybe the processor isn't fast enough. If it is a storage issue she could dump some of her gazillion pictures onto a hard drive, but I can't get her a new computer. What do you think? Thanks for any ideas.
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Old May 29th, 2008, 07:17 PM
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If Tiger wasn't able to install on your iBook, then it could be because you might be using an OEM disc. These are usually solid gray and only work with the Mac models that they ship with. You need the retail version of Tiger, which has a silver "X" on top of a black background in the retail version (both upgrade and full installations).

From the specs given, you could even install Leopard on that iBook but I don't know how snappy it would be compared to Tiger. Tiger should install just fine on that system, but not from an OEM disc that was from another Mac that wasn't an iBook of that revision.
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