iBook G4 upgrade questions

You cant run leopard on that without LeopardAssist as you have less than an 867MHz processor. Google is your friend, remember.

Also, before you try streaming media on that, read this:
http://powerpcusers.com/2011/12/videoonppc-pt1.html

And get VLC for playback.

 

I have an iBook G4 1.33ghz processor with 1.25gb RAM and it runs leopard just fine. Not sure what the difference in RAM and clock speed will mean if you tried to run leopard but just for reference. Maybe someone else with more similar specs will be able to give you a better idea.

 

Yes u can with a little work

First you need to upgrade to at least 512 Ram (if unsure how much or what ram goto macsales.com and find your imac and see what the upgrade options are. Depending on the model the max ram might be 512 or 768 either or will be fine for leopard. I would maybe see if you can get a bigger Hard drive (supports up to i think 120 gig) and might as well find a compatable optical drive on ebay to put in to replace the broken one. The ibooks are kinda tricky to take apart but done it many of times. Once you get the ram upgraded you need to in your case since u do not have a optical drive need to find a PPC mac that supports Leopard to install it to the external HD and make sure you install a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner before you boot the HD to your ibook. Once you boot (has to be firewire drive USB 2 will not work) holding down the option key to select the drive. Once the external HD boots the imac clone the external Disk to the ibook. Once done go to system pres and select the internal HD as your boot drive. Shut down and then book the ibook. if all works you will be running OS Leopard. After the ibook boots do a system update. If would be best that the external HD is not the maxed out OS X.5 as when you apply the update to X.5.8 it will fix any issues with the cloning.
hope this helps
I installed Leopard on two or three unsupported macs mostly imac G4 700mhz and PowerMac G4 500mhz both run OS X.5 just fine but the imac works the best with it.
OS x.5 works well with most processor upgrades for PowerMac G4s as well