Hi all, Jane asked whether her (1.2 GHz) G4 iBook would support Leopard and Will and David wrote:
On Thursday, October 18, 2007, at 02:15PM, "David Poehlman" wrote: >does it have firewire? how much ram? > >On Oct 18, 2007, at 7:22 PM, will lomas wrote: > >> yes but what speed >> i believe it has to be over 800 mhz to support leopard >> >> On 19 Oct 2007, at 00:21, Jane Jordan (gmail) wrote: >> >>> It's an iBook G4. >>> >>> Jane AppleInsider posted (unofficially) that Leopard would require a G4 or G5 processor, 867 MHz or better, a DVD-drive, built-in firewire, at least 512MB of RAM (more preferred), and at least 9GB of disk space. The article is at: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/09/24/updated_leopard_requirements_to_exclude_800mhz_systems.html and the discussion concerned the recent bump up to 867 MHz rather than 800 MHz. Here's an excerpt from the September 24 article: <start quote> According to people familiar with the matter, engineers for the company recently determined that Leopard installs on 800MHz PowerPC G4 systems ran "too slow." Support for those systems was subsequently pulled from the most recent pre-release copies of Leopard, which inform testers that the software "cannot be installed" on those computers. Instead, Leopard will now require Macs with "an Intel processor or a PowerPC G4 (867 MHz or faster) or G5 processor." Other system requirements include a DVD drive, built-in FireWire, at least 512MB of RAM (additional recommended), and at least 9GB of hard disk space. Though seemingly mild, the 67MHz increase will exclude a handful of Mac system, namely the 800MHz PowerBook G4 (Titanium), 800MHz PowerMac G4 (Quicksilver), 800MHz iMac G4, 800MHz iBook G4, and 800MHz eMac. <end quote> Hope this helps. Cheers, Esther
