> Actually if someone says they're running 10.4 or 10.5, it doesn't mean > that OS is necessarily running on a PPC Mac. The first Intel machines > came with 10.4. I know a number of people still using 10.4 or 10.5 on > Intel machines for a variety of reasons. You could purchase10.5 to run > on a PPC Mac but it was only original software on Intel machines. > A lot of people never upgrade their OS or install updates. Lots of > early Macbook Pros are still running 10.4.5 or whatever they came with
10.4.8 pretty well supported the ICH6 and SSE3 LGA 775 procs (late "Netburst" procs). You can get a mach_kernel for 10.6.x which supports those same procs, non-EM64T and EM64T alike. I ran a Hack for nearly a year under Snow Leopard on a Shuttle SP35 which has an ICH9 and all the bells and whistles of a high-end Intel mobo. Just look for mach_kernel_non-atom. Basically, with an ICH7 and almost any MCH/(G)MCH, you can get even Lion to work well, as I have done on a Supermicro Atom 330 Server. Just look for mach_kernel_atom. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
