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Heya, Long time reader, first time poster.
Recently my girlfriend decided she wanted a basic but decent laptop, just for writing on, so we got a G4 Powerbook for £200 (bargain I thought). It generally works fine but there have been quite a lot of glitches like icons messed up, Finder not appearing when you click on the Dock, random crashes, downloads not mounting, etc. I've spent this evening trying all sorts of things to no real avail and the laptop didn't come with the original Tiger disks. My MacMini is Leopard so it's not as if I can even do a repair based on those.
I was wondering whether doing an update to Leopard would be a quick way to fix/overwrite the buggy parts of of the OS and (now that Lion is out) whether you can do this cheaply? I'd rather spend £50 or so than waste another couple of evenings over it.
Recently my girlfriend decided she wanted a basic but decent laptop, just for writing on, so we got a G4 Powerbook for £200 (bargain I thought). It generally works fine but there have been quite a lot of glitches like icons messed up, Finder not appearing when you click on the Dock, random crashes, downloads not mounting, etc. I've spent this evening trying all sorts of things to no real avail and the laptop didn't come with the original Tiger disks. My MacMini is Leopard so it's not as if I can even do a repair based on those.
I was wondering whether doing an update to Leopard would be a quick way to fix/overwrite the buggy parts of of the OS and (now that Lion is out) whether you can do this cheaply? I'd rather spend £50 or so than waste another couple of evenings over it.
