According to the latest system requirements, the minimum system that will run Leopard is a G4/867, leaving in the dust any slower G4s and all previous processors. That's not to say some inventive programmer won't come up with a way to do it, but it won't be supported natively.
XPostFacto allowed OS X to be installed on older G3 systems (read 'beige'), but it was slow and buggy, from what I recall. Bryan On Oct 9, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Nora J. Probasco wrote: > Lee, > > I have the 14" ibook with a 900 MHz PowerPC G3 processor. Do I > gather that > it won't be able to use MAC OS X 10.5? I did not upgrade to Tiger, > but was > hoping to upgrade to 10.5. > > Nora > > >> From: Lee Larson <leelarson at mac.com> >> Reply-To: Macintosh topics <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 13:17:00 -0400 >> To: Macintosh topics <macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> Subject: Re: [MacGroup] new OS, new mac >> >> On Oct 8, 2007, at 1:02 PM, David M asked: >> >>> So how long can I wait to be sure that I receive a mac >>> that will boot 10.4? >> >> Your PowerBook G4 should run Mac OS X 10.4 just fine. My wife has >> been using 10.4 on her G4 PowerBook with no problems. >> >> The last I read, any machine with at least an 867 MHz G4 should run >> Mac OS X 10.5. Since 10.5 hasn't been released yet, this could change >> at the drop of an Apple. >> _______________________________________________ >> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >> be October 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be October 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > Bryan -- Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20071009/cce573b1/attachment.html
