apple osx system disks

[sjcap.livejournal.com]

i'm going backwards. rather than upgrading my mac laptop, i'm looking to downgrade it to osx 10.4 (tiger).

does anyone know where i can find a copy of an older apple operating system?
almost everyone i see in the cafes with macs are running updated leopard or snow leopard. if anyone has upgraded lately, and no longer needs their original osx 10.4 disks, maybe we can work out a deal ($, box of kickass cupcakes, ?).

ideas? thanks!!

Comments

[m00n.livejournal.com]

Also do you mind if I ask why you're trying to do this? It may be presumptuous for me to even say this but there might be a better what to accomplish whatever it is you're trying to accomplish.

[rramdin.livejournal.com]

Actually, I chuckled a little when I read this, as my roommate just reverted to Tiger from Snow Leopard. After he upgraded to Snow Leopard, his computer picked up a host of problems (eg poor compatibility with some third party audio equipment, unreliable airport under a heavy load, a few random logouts--which I've also been getting). Additionally he was just unhappy with some UI changes between Leo and SL. His thinking was that he'd rather use Tiger, since it isn't as bloated as Leopard, basically as fast as SL, and virtually bug free.

Interesting...

[nvidia99999.livejournal.com]

I should upgrade and I have the disks, but I'm still running Tiger. Not sure what the incremental advantage of upgrading, given that I don't care about ornaments.