I think it may be true that the G4 is not suitable for upgrading to 10.5 - I have a G4 powerbook and I haven't tried to move it past 10.4, I do think that Apple says G5 OK, but not G3/4...
- joey At 10:13 +0800 2009/03/18, Alex Rufon wrote: >Hey Joey, > >This is a surprise for me. > >My mom's unit is an iBook G4 and she brought it to an official apple >support center in Hong Kong. She wanted it upgraded to 10.5 but they >said that it cant be upgraded to 10.5 and only upgrade it to 10.4. :( > >I believe she paid for the upgrade. > >r/Alex > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of Joey K Tuttle >Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:22 AM >To: Chat forum >Subject: Re: [Jchat] [Jgeneral] screen cast of downloading J > >I am very happy with OS X 10.5.6 on my Power PC G5 iMac. > >Sent from my iPod - excuse terseness and typos. > >- joey > > > >On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:52, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Alex - I have to check if it's Power PC since we got it a little >> after >> Mac announced the move to Intel but thanks for the tip. >> >> Regards, >> >> Devon >> >> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Alex Rufon <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >>> Hi Devon, >>> >>> If you have an OSX 10.3 ... I would assume that you have a PPC >>> unit. Four >>> years ago, I bought an iBook for my Mom and it uses 10.3 and last >>> year, she >>> wanted to upgrade to 10.5 only to find out that it doesn't support >>> the PPC >>> machines anymore. Suffice to say, the service center in Hong Kong >>> upgraded >>> her PPC mac to 10.4 and she just kept apply the apple updates. >>> >>> Hope this helps. >>> >>> r/Alex >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] >>> ] >>> On Behalf Of Devon McCormick >>> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 8:50 PM >>> To: Rob Hodgkinson >>> Cc: J-general forum >>> Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] screen cast of downloading J >>> >>> Rob - we have a Mac in the house but it's OSX 10.3. I guess this >>> is more >>> incentive to upgrade. The other reason is that my wife wants to >>> watch >>> streaming Netflix but their player doesn't work with the older OS. >>> >>> It's probably easier to just use the Mac for this than to deal with >>> kludgy >>> Windows stuff. Fortunately, J will behave about the same in most >>> cases >>> (except for installation). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Devon >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Rob Hodgkinson <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Devon, not sure if you are using a Mac or not, but there is a >>>> really nice >>>> tool on Mac OSX 10.5 you can use called Screenflow. I have used >>>> this to >>>> create similar videos (incredibly easy to use/mix) and you can >>>> export >>> using >>>> other tools (eg Quicktime Pro) to create Windows or other standard >>> formats >>>> for replay. >>>> >>>> .../Regards Rob >>>> >>>> http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 16/03/2009, at 1:49 PM, Devon McCormick wrote: >>>> >>>> Brian - this could be a good tool for teaching about J. >>>>> >>>>> How did you record the session and soundtrack? >>>>> >>>>> Good effort. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Devon >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Brian Schott <[email protected] >>>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I have placed a screen cast onto Youtube.com. I >>>>>> welcome comments here or even there. >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqAvUuprLP8 >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> >>>>>> (B=) >>>>>> --- >>>>>> --- >>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Devon McCormick, CFA >>>>> ^me^ at acm. >>>>> org is my >>>>> preferred e-mail >>>>> --- >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Devon McCormick, CFA > >> ^me^ at acm. >>> org is my >>> preferred e-mail >>> --- >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/ >>> forums.htm >>> --- >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/ >>> forums.htm >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Devon McCormick, CFA >> ^me^ at acm. >> org is my >> preferred e-mail >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
