[muflyer]

I am a casual Mac User. I have a 2 and a half year old iMac running Mac OS X 10.2.8. It is a 1.25 GHz Power PC G4 with 256MB of memory. I primarily use it for video, audio and photos and tend to use the iMovie (3.0.3); iTunes (6.0.4(3)) and iPhoto (2.0.1). I also have an video iPod which I have purchased which I was hoping to use for videos, photos, etc. However, as I understand it, I apparently have to upgrade my iMac before I can transfer photos and videos to my iPod and I will also have to upgrade my iPod (ver. 1.0) to accomodate that as well. I thought about getting the latest version of iLife, but that apparently also requires that I upgrade my operating software as well???? Is Apple going to continue reaching into my wallet for every upgrade they have? I would appreciate any advice from anyone on the easiest and least expensive way to upgarde my iMac to support the latest features in the new 30GB video iPod. Thanks, Chris

[schokid02]

If you've already ordered your 5th gen iPod then I'd wait until it arrives and test it out before upgrading your system software. I think the issue with running Jaguar is that it doesn't support the H.264 video codec that is used for Apple videos playing back on the iPod. If that really is the case, then you would just have to encode your videos in mp4 format. Here is a nice guide to iPod video formats. I'm not sure about the Photo-transfering, but I know music will still transfer fine. Again, just test things out when the iPod comes in. Hopefully you can save the money from not upgrading the OS and perhaps toss some more RAM in that old beast.