Buying Leopard for PPC

[thomasp]

When Leopard hits the shelves, for those of us still using the "ancient" technology that is the PowerPC processor will we be able to pick up any box with "Mac OS X Leopard" written on it, or will we have to specifically look for the PowerPC version and make sure not to buy the Intel version?

In other words, are Apple bundling the PPC and Intel versions together in one box, or selling them in separate boxes requiring shoppers to think before buying and make sure they're buying the correct one.


Thanks!

 

[FJ218700]

it will be a single DVD

 

[PlaceofDis]

it should all be on one disc, shouldn't be two different versions.

 

[xUKHCx]

Think both versions will come on one disk i.e. Universal

 

[thomasp]

Excellent

Just have to keep my eyes peeled for Leopard Home Basic, Leopard Home Standard, leopard Business, Leopard Extreme, Leopard Ultimate, Leopard Home basic upgrade, etc, etc, etc......

Aren't all those versions retailing at the same price?

 

[G4DP]

Ub

The Leopard Install Disk will be Universal Binary. So it won't matter whether you use a PPC machine - like me - or a newer Intel one.

 

[penter]

Excellent

Just have to keep my eyes peeled for Leopard Home Basic, Leopard Home Standard, leopard Business, Leopard Extreme, Leopard Ultimate, Leopard Home basic upgrade, etc, etc, etc......

Aren't all those versions retailing at the same price?

LOL

I dont want to start a new thread, so I'll feel free to post my question here.
Now that we know that Leopard will come in a sigle disk UB format, is it even RECOMMENDED that I install it on my ancient PPC Hardware?
the specs are in my signature, and I'm afraid that it wont be able to handle the "goodness".

 

[Peace]

LOL

I dont want to start a new thread, so I'll feel free to post my question here.
Now that we know that Leopard will come in a sigle disk UB format, is it even RECOMMENDED that I install it on my ancient PPC Hardware?
the specs are in my signature, and I'm afraid that it wont be able to handle the "goodness".

Leopard requires a G4 867 Mhz and up.It won't install on your old iMac.

 

[penter]

awwwwww shucks!
oh well....
thnx

 

[FJ218700]

Leopard requires a G4 867 Mhz and up.It won't install on your old iMac.

it might install via FW from a supported Mac

 

[wordmunger]

Okay, if not that computer, then how about an iBook G4 1.33 Ghz with 768MB SDRAM. Worth it to install Leopard? I'm running Panther on it now.

 

[ab2650]

Okay, if not that computer, then how about an iBook G4 1.33 Ghz with 768MB SDRAM. Worth it to install Leopard? I'm running Panther on it now.

Minimum G4 867Mhz, so a G4 1.33Ghz (1333 Mhz) will work.
However, I find Tiger is almost unbearable on my G4 iMac... I say leave it at Panther, or buy yourself a clearance copy of Tiger when Leopard hits the shelves.

 

[penter]

it might install via FW from a supported Mac

What's do you mean by "via FW"?
Whats FW?

 

[wordmunger]

What's do you mean by "via FW"?
Whats FW?

FW=firewire. But you really don't want to install Leopard on that computer with just a 40GB HD and 256MB of memory. It will crawl.

 

[0007776]

Okay, if not that computer, then how about an iBook G4 1.33 Ghz with 768MB SDRAM. Worth it to install Leopard? I'm running Panther on it now.

I'm planning on installing it on a powerbook of the same specs, I think it should be fine.

 

[thomasp]

However, I find Tiger is almost unbearable on my G4 iMac...

Really? I've managed to get Tiger working pretty well on a 500MHz G3 iBook with only 384Mb RAM. OK, you couldn't really multitask and it was only really good for internet browsing and e-mail, but still, it was working better than my G4 PowerBook at that particular time (to be fair, my PB was in for repair...). And it worked a heck of a lot better than OS9 or 10.1!