FWIW I've heard of people getting the early leopard developer builds to run (slowly) on g3's (white ibooks to be exact) but some apps had problems as they were coded to need altivec (ichat is one I can remember) and the interface wasn't too snappy thanks to the older video card. If you do some digging on the net you can probably find all the info but it probably wouldn't be much fun trying to run an early dev build with more current apps. All g3 drivers and support were removed for the retail release probably because a lot of G3s (and older G4s) have hardwired video cards that couldn't handle leopard even if the CPU could (albeit slowly). But LEM did have some reports about a guy hacking leopard on to a beige G3 (with G4 upgrade) using drivers from the developer builds and tiger so anythings possible if you can stuff a g4 in your pismo.
Joe Reilly -----Original Message----- From: Clark Martin <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:47:13 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Pismo with Leopard Simon Graham wrote: > Hi, > > Is Pismo capable of taking leopard. Anyone have any experience with it? "Taking" it? Leopard requires a 867 MHz G4 or faster. You can trick the installer to install on a slower G4 but I've not heard of any way to get it to run on a G3. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
