How is this possible?

[VirtuallyInsane]

How is this possible, even with Leopard Assist? I thought that you needed to upgrade the processor to at least a G4 if it was under 867 MHz. Or is this just a faked screenshot, or a Beta/ "hacked" Version of Mac OS 10.5 that was using G3 to experiment on before they decided the cut-off point?

I am curious to know now. I know you can definitely run Leopard on a G4 processor at those speeds.

 

[B S Magnet]

How is this possible, even with Leopard Assist? I thought that you needed to upgrade the processor to at least a G4 if it was under 867 MHz. Or is this just a faked screenshot, or a Beta/ "hacked" Version of Mac OS 10.5 that was using G3 to experiment on before they decided the cut-off point?

I am curious to know now. I know you can definitely run Leopard on a G4 processor at those speeds.

What is the source of that screen cap?

Note: this shows a release date of 2006, which would be very early in the development cycle for Leopard, which didn’t go on sale until late 2007.

 

[Amethyst1]

How is this possible, even with Leopard Assist? I thought that you needed to upgrade the processor to at least a G4 if it was under 867 MHz.

Note: this shows a release date of 2006, which would be very early in the development cycle for Leopard, which didn’t go on sale until late 2007.

Spot on. This is an early beta of Leopard (e.g. 9A241 or 9A303) that still looks like Tiger and still runs on a G3.

 

[VirtuallyInsane]

What is the source of that screen cap?

Note: this shows a release date of 2006, which would be very early in the development cycle for Leopard, which didn’t go on sale until late 2007.

I found it from an old MacRumors thread, "Post Your About This Mac Screenshots". (Edit: Amethyst already answered below).

Spot on. This is an early beta of Leopard (e.g. 9A241 or 9A303) that still looks like Tiger and still runs on a G3.

Ah, this makes a lot of sense, thanks. Which Beta version did they drop official support for G4 machines around?

 

[Amethyst1]

Which Beta version did they drop official support for G4 machines around?

9A321.

 

[lepidotós]

As others have said, yep, it's real. It's not significantly different from Tiger at this point though, and it's very broken on G3s by 303. Effectively unusable.
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