Thanks for the additional comments. Just more reasons to keep the Pismo around, I guess! :-)
On Aug 23, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Wolfram Gottfried wrote: > > > > --- On Sun, 8/23/09, Carl Freire <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Carl Freire <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: OS, Pismo vs. MacBook Pro >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 8:25 PM >> >> At 3:01 PM -0500 8/23/09, Ione wrote: >>> I just now noticed that the MacBook will not recognize >> the OSs in >>> the 10.3.9 and 10.4.11 partitions. That is, if I go to >> "system >>> preferences" and select "startup disk", those >> partitions will not >>> show up as candidates for a startup disk. AND two of >> these >>> partitions (but not all of them) show up as EMPTY when >> I pull them >>> up in Disk Utility, even though I can see their >> contents in the >>> Finder. However, they all show up normally on the >> Pismo. >>> >>> Why? Does the Book require 10.5? Is this because of the >> Intel architecture? > > > An Intel based mac will have hard time (if it works at all) > booting a PowerPC based OS. Add to this the fact that Apple has > had a bad habit of rigging the firmware on machines so that they > will not boot to an OS older than what they shipped with (we > got a whole classroom of new Macs shipped with 10.5.6, our > existing classroom configurations based on 10.5.4 would NOT work > on them we had to make all new installations based on 10.5.6). > > Even if you GET the 10.4.11 to boot on the new Intel mac it will > not run well - code written for PowerPC Macs has to be run through > an emulation layer which they call Rosetta (although RubeGoldbergMatic > would be more accurate since anytime you emulate one hardware on > another it is dicey at best). At the school we do not mix and match > at all - no PowerPC code gets run on the Intel machines at all. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
