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A Backwards Mac
What program would I want to get to allow me to install Leopard on this machine? I don't want to try to make a modified disk if I can avoid it.
Tiger: G4 PowerPC Dual Core 400 Mhz w/640 MB RAM 20 Gig ATA HD all HFS+ Internal DVD Access to Server True Tiger Leopard: Acer Intel Atom Dual [email protected] w/1 Gig Ram 160GB HD-133GB NTFS, 15.68GB HFS+ SD slot No Net access iDeneb 1.6 Lite Compaq SR5710F [email protected] w/3 Gigs Ram 80 Gig ATA HD (NTFS - Vista) 200 Gig ATA HD (NTFS-Data) Access to Server Server: Compaq 1.8 Single Core Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition ~2 TB online.... |
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I think it ain't possible to install Leopard without having the G4 CPU Upgrade, for example the G3 lacks support for some stuff like AltiVec...
AMD Phenom II X4 955 - ASRock AM3A770DE - 8GB DDR3-1333 - Radeon HD 5570 1GB passiv - BCM4318 802.11b/g - Snow Leopard Retail
+++ AMD Phenom X3 8450 - ASRock AM2NF6G-VSTA (BIOS L2.39) - 4GB DDR2-800 - Radeon HD 4650 512MB - Snow Leopard Retail (retired) / OpenBSD |
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"Leopard can run on older hardware as long as they have a G4 upgrade installed running at the 867mhz or faster, have at least 9 GB free of hard drive space, 512 MB RAM and have a DVD drive. Leopard however will not run on the 900mhz iBook G3 models even though they exceed the minimum 867Mhz requirement. This is due to the lack of AltiVec in the G3 line of processors and the fact that most pre G4 and early G4 systems do not have video hardware capable of supporting Core Image, two technologies Leopard relies heavily upon among others. Leopard can be "hacked" (see below) to install on these G3 and pre 867mhz G4 machines but the system may behave erratically and many of the programs, features and functions may not work properly or at all." - Wikipedia
Well it seems that it is possible after all with a little hacking done, but i don't think it's worth the effort ( stability and performance....ugh ) Tiger is good enough www.ultimae.com Panoramic music, for panoramic people. AMD Phenom II X6 3.5Ghz AMD 990FX Chipset Kingston HyperX 16GB 1600Mhz AMD Radeon HD6850 X2 CrossFire Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB |
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💡 Deploy cloud instances seamlessly on DigitalOcean. Free credits ($100) for InfMac readers. Tiger: G4 PowerPC Dual Core 400 Mhz w/640 MB RAM 20 Gig ATA HD all HFS+ Internal DVD Access to Server True Tiger Leopard: Acer Intel Atom Dual [email protected] w/1 Gig Ram 160GB HD-133GB NTFS, 15.68GB HFS+ SD slot No Net access iDeneb 1.6 Lite Compaq SR5710F [email protected] w/3 Gigs Ram 80 Gig ATA HD (NTFS - Vista) 200 Gig ATA HD (NTFS-Data) Access to Server Server: Compaq 1.8 Single Core Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition ~2 TB online.... |