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Is this iBook capable of running on 10.3?

I found this ibook at the thrift store for 20 dollars. So I bought it a power cord, and tried it out. This computer works FLAWLESSLY compared to the other one I bought "refurbished" (A1040). Even the GPU is good, and it has never frozen once. But it runs on Mac OS 9.2. Which I cannot even use the internet on. I am planning on downgrading my other ibook because of the problems I was having on it.. But I wanted to know if I can use the Panther 10.3 discs on this one to upgrade it as well? Is there enough hard disk space to support that version? I know I can always upgrade the RAM.

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Mine is the M2453, if that helps.

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Hi Sarah, According to Mactracker your unit is good up to 10.3.9. I would max the ram. Good luck.

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If the 10.3 installation disks are gray, they are for that specific machine and will not work on your Clamshell.

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Ok. The discs are black with an X on them. I am currently downgrading my white ibook. At first I was confused about the whole select volume part, but I just went into options and selected to overwrite and not save archives. Now for the clamshell, when I put the disc in, it showed different pictures than it does in the book, and on this ibook, but it seems like it was asking for the same prompts? I didn't go ahead with it just to be sure.

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I am quite amazed and happy to say that it hasn't froze once through the whole process..

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I'm happy for your success--good work.

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