Not necessarily though. I was able to boot from and install Mac OS X Leopard on my G4 iMac 800 using my Macbook Pro system install disk version 10.5.2. It had both the PowerPC Code and the Intel code even though it was specifically designed for the intel machine. I am not lying, go check it out for yourself.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Tina K. <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010/11/30 11:38, Steven so eloquently wrote: > >> That sounds right. If you'll remember, when Snow Leopard came out one >> of the biggest improvements was gigabytes of hard drive space freed >> up, since there was no more doubled PowerPC code. I think it is >> reasonable to assume that a retail disk installs all possible >> software while machine specific disks are more optimized. >> > > Thank you misterbleepy and Steven, that is good to know. > > > Tina > > -- > > iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB DDR > Gnome/Ubuntu 10.10 > > Power Mac June 04 2GHz G5DP 8GB RAM GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL 256MB Leopard > 10.5.8 > > PowerBook G4 15" HiRes DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon 9700 128MB DDR > Leopard 10.5.8 > > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
