I have a mac which came with OS X 10.3. I have managed to upgrade to 10.3.9. I am now wanting to upgrade to a newer version. 10.4/+. How far would you recommend I upgrade, and how would I go about this. I believe 10.4 is tiger(?) Would i need to buy this upgrade first of all, even if i was to upgrade to a newer version? I saw 10.4.9 (leopard) available on the apple website today. But it says the system requirements are 10.4. What i'm really getting at is. No matter how high i tried to upgrade the OS. would I first of all have to buy 10.4 (Tiger?) and start there? Then from 10.4; purchase all the upgrades? I'm relatively new to how all the OS upgrades work for Macs, and whether I need to do them all in sequence. Unlike Windows, where as long as the system can hack it, you can put what you like on. Hope i've made my question clear enough. Thanks in advance

OS 10.3 = panther 10.4 = tiger 10.5 = leopard each are different versions you have to buy. patches are more like 10.4.0 -> 10.4.9. these are free. Perhaps you should wait for leopard, due out later this year.

Thanks for my reply. But that was really my point.. I currently have 10.3.9 installed and would like to upgrade to Leopard. Can I bypass Tiger? Going straight from 10.3.9 to 10.5? Or do I need to get Tiger as well and do it sequentially? Thanks again

Yes, you can go straight from 10.3.9 to 10.5.

Thanks for the help. I just got a little confused when I looked on the Apple site and it said the system requirements were 10.4.