On Dec 16, 2008, at 12:15 PM, joe wrote:

> I'm setting up a Gigabit Ethernet G4 with dual 450 mhz cpus and 768
> mb RAM as a developer's computer for my girlfriend's son.  I'm
> reading that the latest version of Xcode only runs on Leopard, so I
> want to know if this set up will run Leopard all right.
>

slowly, but people have done it. Simpler to spend a few bux and get a  
1 or 1.2 Ghz upgrade for it; leopard runs quite happily on that (a  
gigE with a 1G upgrade is my home desktop) Get more memory too. a full  
gig will be useful for a developers box.

> Elsewise, would it be a big handicap for him to use an older version
> of Xcode and Panther?


MASSIVE handicap. Go for 10.4 at the very least.

It does depend on what kind of programming he intends to do.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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