At 7:47 PM +0000 01/24/2006, Oisin Tansey wrote:
I have an iMac G5, and recently upgraded to Tiger. I am now thinking of buying a used Power Mac G4 I have seen on sale, but it has no operating system installed (otherwise it has 128 Ram, 30BG, Model M5183). Will I be able to install OS X from my original iMac disks, or from the Tiger upgrade disk?
Legally, if the Power Mac doesn't already have Tiger on it, then you need to buy another copy of Tiger for it. There are inexpensive Tiger *retail* kits available on eBay (I got one recently for <$70).
As to using the disc from your iMac... Most of the DVDs that came with iMacs are specific to that model, so they won't install. (See this list's archives, and G-Book's for long discussions about this).
And how much Ram would I need to run OS X reasonably well?
I run my B&W with 384 MB. It works, but it gets a bit funky now and then. IMO you're better off with a minimum of 512 MB. More if you're going to want to do memory intensive things (video editing, Photoshop, etc).
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