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eMac 800 MHz and Leopard

11colmil

11colmil

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Hello, I have an older eMac with a 800 MHz G4 processor and 256 MB of ram. I am going to upgrade the RAM to a gig. Would it be possible to install Leopard on my eMac? Or won't my processor be fast enough. I don't care if it runs slow.

Thanks in advance​
 
You could force it to run once you upgrade the RAM, but it would be unbearably slow ... at least for me.
 
Short Answer: No, you can't.

Long Answer: Technically you can, but it will require hacking the installation disk, and dealing with a slow unfriendly computer.

Don
 
Thanks, i guess i can take out my hard drive and place it in a faster g4 mac so i can install it. Im aware that it is gonna be slow
 
I get frustrated with it on my 1.25GHz eMac w/ 1gig. I can't imagine it on your machine. Tiger would be better suited as I know mine ran much smoother on it.
 
A member on this forum installed Leopard on his 500 MHz Titanium PowerBook, and I recall him saying it ran Safari and iTunes decently, but not much else. Your machine would be better, but don't expect it to run more then 2 or 3 programs at a time.
 
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