Well I'll have to check it out. It was a free computer so. Aimee
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 23, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Chris Blouch <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a powermac g4 tower that I wanted to upgrade to osx 10.5 since that > was as high as I could go on non-intel hardware. I wanted to be legitimate > and not just "share" a copy from another machine. This turned out to be > non-trivial as Apple moved all references and sales to 10.6 (at the time) and > all the usual web sites selling old software were apparently aware of this, > jacking up the price to hundreds of dollars. I finally ended up buying one > from eBay for a more sane price that was still north of $100. So just be > prepared. Folks who have stocks of 10.5 in the shrink-wrap know the non-intel > Mac users have nowhere else to go and will price accordingly. That cheap ppc > Mac might not be such a deal if you want it somewhat current legally. > > CB > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 23, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Aimee Glover <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thank you so much. Now I gotta find it to buy. >> >> Aimee. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Sep 23, 2011, at 6:29 PM, BlindMacMan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello! I still have my PPC iMac G5 and it is running Leopard 10.5.8 >>> just fine... Do *NOT* go with Tiger 10.4.x... The improvements in >>> Leopard's VoiceOver alone make it worthwhile. >>> >>> HTH >>> >>> Lou/BlindMacMan. >>> On Sep 22, 6:28 pm, Aimee Glover <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> It won't run anything higher than a certain version of leopard because >>>> it is pre-intel. It was kind of a freebie and I'm ok as long as it >>>> will be somewhat useable. >>>> >>>> Aimee >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Sep 22, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Mike Arrigo <[email protected]> wrote:> >>>> Leppard has some voiceover improvements, even still, this operating system >>>> is 2 versions behind the current one, I would say that it's not practical >>>> to go this root. >>>>> On Sep 21, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Aimee Glover wrote: >>>> >>>>>> My husband brought home a first generation G5 iMac. At least as far as >>>>>> VoiceOver, which would be better. I have had no experience with Mac >>>>>> pre SL, so I am truly clueless. Will open office work on it with vo? >>>>>> We need to upgrade the ram because it only has 512. I want to replace >>>>>> the windows desktop computer with this one because it is inaccessible >>>>>> without speech. Thanks so much for all the help. >>>> >>>>>> Aimee >>>> >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>>> 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 >>>>>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> 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 >>>>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> 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/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> 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/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > 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/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en.
