The Motorola and IBM industry still make derivatives of the forever famous PowerPC Processors made for macs that were stopped in production over 5 years ago. Since then, one by one, First the G3 Macs, then The Power macs, and after a while the early 2004 PM G5's have been put on the list of "Obsolete" machines by Apple. In my opinion, as long as the software you have on it is still supported, then the machine is not obsolete. What if we decided not to accept the fact that they're obsolete. That can be made possible with the "Q" emulator. Just as long as it can still be made in PPC code and as long as it has the current processor architecture code in it, The machine may not ever become obsolete. After a certain amount of years, of course we will have machines that age, but sometimes, A small stroke of luck comes your way. I have a Power Macintosh G4 iSaw (AKA Sawtooth) with 4GB of SDRAM, 440GB of HDD space, Mac OS X 10.5.8, and Mac OS X 10.6.3. Yeah, that's right! I do have 10.6.3 on a PPC mac! I have the "Q" emulator running as the only program on the system, and I run it on startup. I close down finder, dock, dashboard, and basically everything on the Leopard host and devote half of the 4GB of RAM to the system guest OS, Snow Leopard. The performance is okay, equivalent to Leopard on a Sawtooth without upgrades. The animations and everything else that has to do with graphics are choppy, but I am able to use it as a file browser, and also as an e-mail system. We are PowerPC users facing an era of unknown time of when PPC will be completely obsolete, so some or even many of you may turn to this. I have tried this on a PM G5 machine with MAXED specs, (Quad core 2.5Ghz 16GB RAM 500GB HDD Nvidia GeForce 7200 with 512MB VRAM) and it worked just like a real intel mac would, just close down everything on the host Os for performance. For even better guest OS performance, use the emulator in Mac OS X Tiger, close down everything on the host, put it up on fullscreen, and you'll have a truly remarkable experience.
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