I have a 2001 Apple iMac G3 Indigo Power PC 450 MHz in the small bedroom for use as a ‘guest computer’ and for telecommuting. My main computer is a PowerBook G4.
Today on the PowerBook I decided to buy a song from iTunes. I got a pop-up window saying that I had to upgrade Safari to use the iTunes Store. I don’t know what version of Safari I had before – 4-point-something – and now I have 4.0.3. (Hm. Seems lower than what I had. Whatever.)
I’ve been slacking on using the iMac for telecommuting. Much easier to listen to the news when I’m on the couch using the PowerBook. So the iMac hadn’t been started in a while. I decided I’d turn it on and try out iTunes. I was informed that I needed to upgrade Safari.
Here’s the thing: I have Safari 3.9.4 on the iMac, and there is no update when I click Software Update. I’ve assumed that no higher revision would work on the G3. But then I thought that iTunes would not be asking me to upgrade to a newer version of Safari unless the G3 processor could run it.
So what’s the deal? If I install the Safari 4.0.3 upgrade, will my iMac work? Or is the new software incompatible with the G3 processor?