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Leopard On A PPC G3?
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No. No there is not. Leopard requires the AltiVec unit of the PowerPC G4/G5 microprocessors. Anyone claiming to have done it is lying as to do so would require a huge amount of work which could only be done with the source code (Which is Apple Internal), and would in all likelihood never work anyway.
You can "TRY" to install Leopard on a G3. Here are some links that will help you out.
Hacking Leopard for G3 Power Macs
Leopard on a Blue & White G3: Success with CoreImage
Success: Leopard on a Beige G3
Leopard Almost Running on a Beige G3
Hacking Leopard for G3 Power Macs
Leopard on a Blue & White G3: Success with CoreImage
Success: Leopard on a Beige G3
Leopard Almost Running on a Beige G3
Thing is, though, I don't think it's possible to put a G4 processor into an iBook G3... correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's only possible on the PowerBooks.
If you need an up-to-date OS and Tiger won't suffice, you could always give PPC Linux a shot. Not sure if that'd give you too much more success with things, though...
If you need an up-to-date OS and Tiger won't suffice, you could always give PPC Linux a shot. Not sure if that'd give you too much more success with things, though...
Low End Mac just did an article on Linux Mint PPC, scroll down about half way.
http://lowendmac.com/newsrev/11mnr/0520.html
http://www.mintppc.org/about
If it works well it's an interesting option for a more modern OS on some very old computers. They claim it has been installed on old iBook G3's.
http://lowendmac.com/newsrev/11mnr/0520.html
http://www.mintppc.org/about
If it works well it's an interesting option for a more modern OS on some very old computers. They claim it has been installed on old iBook G3's.
there had also claims about leopard on iMac G3's , but even the working claims are more a slide show then a useful operating system , i tried it myself dozend different ways , but it really was more a slide show until the iMac froze ...i should have made some pictures of it booting , as a video would have been a bit to long to upload on youtube ..took about 20 min to get to the log in window and after another 15 minutes or so finally the desktop appeared only to freeze the iMac rock solid
and some youtube videos are just fake , you can make tiger look exactly like leopard or even snow leopard and you can even alter that in about this Mac so the 10.4 is shown as 10.5 or 10.6 if you wish ..for how to's just google
and some youtube videos are just fake , you can make tiger look exactly like leopard or even snow leopard and you can even alter that in about this Mac so the 10.4 is shown as 10.5 or 10.6 if you wish ..for how to's just google
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That tower DOES have a G4 Upgrade, as it clearly states in the video description. Why can't everyone get this: If there isn't a G4 based PowerPC CPU inside a G3 or older Mac. It WILL NOT EVER BOOT AND RUN Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It DOESN'T WORK and it WON'T EVER WORK. We don't need to have this discussion 900 times, as booting 10.5 on a Mac without the Alti-Vec unit DOES NOT WORK. The only people who claim to have done it have just made 10.4 look like 10.5 and altered the String in About this Mac. There is no way to get 10.5 to boot without the G4.
Easy.. you might have a brain haemorrhage.
I missed that G4 upgrade part of the info. I simply found the video in a 5 second google search to try and help this poster.