On Jan 15, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> Yes, just swap in the drives, OSX barely even notices. The architecture of OS X is such that a boot drive originally installed on one machine is perfectly good on another machine, not necessarily of the same architecture. I'm sure there are some limits, however. It is my policy to only install so-called "universal" applications, for the very reason that those boot drives are often migrated to other machines. The so-called "loader" function of OS X is capable if distinguishing, and of loading the proper instantiation of: PPC, PPC-64, Intel and Intel-64 applications, all on the relevant machine, from the same "universal" application file. The same is true of many system components. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml 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/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
