Running mountain lion on power Mac g5 possible?

212rikanmofo · Jul 11, 2012, 04:43 PM

I heard that it's possible with a hack to be able to install mountain lion on a power Mac G5? Is this possible?

innominato5090 · Jul 11, 2012, 04:45 PM

no, mountain lion is only x64 compatible.

NeoMayhem · Jul 11, 2012, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by 212rikanmofo

I heard that it's possible with a hack to be able to install mountain lion on a power Mac G5? Is this possible?

Never going to happen, sorry. People have had success getting it running on older Intel machines that are not supported though.

Mal · Jul 11, 2012, 07:59 PM

Nope, even Snow Leopard won't run with all the hacks in the world on a G5, because it doesn't contain the PPC code necessary.

jW

NeoMayhem · Jul 11, 2012, 09:21 PM

I changed my mind, it IS possible:

http://build-its.blogspot.com/2011/0...c-g5-case.html

If you use the right hardware, you can turn it into a hackintosh that is still 'apple labeled', allowing you to install OS X.

Major.Robto · Jul 11, 2012, 09:24 PM

(facepalm)

ppcg5 was droped at 10.6 your two versons to late.

Mal · Jul 12, 2012, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by NeoMayhem

I changed my mind, it IS possible:

http://build-its.blogspot.com/2011/0...c-g5-case.html

If you use the right hardware, you can turn it into a hackintosh that is still 'apple labeled', allowing you to install OS X.

That's still not a G5, no matter what you put in the case. The PowerPC G5 processors will not, under any circumstances, run 10.8.

jW

maflynn · Jul 12, 2012, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by 212rikanmofo

I heard that it's possible with a hack to be able to install mountain lion on a power Mac G5? Is this possible?

No, because its not a an artificial barrier, apple has not included the PPC code in OSX since 10.5.

If you have a G5, your only option is to upgrade to a new computer if you want to use Mountain Lion

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NeoMayhem macrumors 6502a Join Date: Aug 2003	I changed my mind, it IS possible: http://build-its.blogspot.com/2011/0...c-g5-case.html If you use the right hardware, you can turn it into a hackintosh that is still 'apple labeled', allowing you to install OS X.
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