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Is it Possible to upgrade G5 to Snow Leopard Mac OS 10.6

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Here is the details of my Power Mac G5:

Machine Name: Power Mac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac9,1
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.0)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 2.25 GB
Bus Speed: 600 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.2f1
Serial Number: CK440HMTQYT
Please help me if this is possible to upgrade it to Snow leopard.

Thank you.:)
 
Your G5, as stated, pretty much maxes out at 10.5.8. You can try running a Linux distro on it, if you really need to, once Leopard's support completely ends. Leopard is still rather usable for most things, though, so keep that G5 around! After all, people still use Tiger after its official support has completely ended

If you absolutely need Snow Leopard, though, I'd advise looking at some older used Intel machines. Just make sure it's at least a Core 2 machine - the Core series is officially being dropped from Lion. (though I'm sure something like XPostFacto will surface for it...)
 
kalsta said:
Nope, sorry. Snow Leopard is Intel only.
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I got it,not possible.:( thank you.

Bloodstar said:
Your G5, as stated, pretty much maxes out at 10.5.8. You can try running a Linux distro on it, if you really need to, once Leopard's support completely ends. Leopard is still rather usable for most things, though, so keep that G5 around! After all, people still use Tiger after its official support has completely ended

If you absolutely need Snow Leopard, though, I'd advise looking at some older used Intel machines. Just make sure it's at least a Core 2 machine - the Core series is officially being dropped from Lion. (though I'm sure something like XPostFacto will surface for it...)
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ok or it could be 10.5.9, thank you. :apple:
 
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Actually it is possible but would take hundreds or thousands of hours of coding depending on your skill set to make it work and I'm guessing you would be mainly using the same patches Leopard used so it really wouldn't give you any boost.
 
AWallen90 said:
Actually it is possible but would take hundreds or thousands of hours of coding depending on your skill set to make it work and I'm guessing you would be mainly using the same patches Leopard used so it really wouldn't give you any boost.
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I dont know where you come from, in terms of viewpoint, but it isnt possible without access to Apple Internal Sourcecode. Even the most skilled hacker would need to put in thousands of man-years, because first youd have to reverse engineer both Operating Systems to completion, so you know whats changed, then youd need to recreate all the changes in such a way that they are identical in function to Apples Private, Closed-Source components. Then you'd need to bolt this on to a fundamentally changed PowerPC port of Snow Leopards Darwin, youd also need to port thousands of Intel-only headers to ensure binary compatability. Then youd need to meld on Leopards Applications or PowerPC versions of all of SnowLeopards - all many more hours of work, and even then it probably wouldn't work any better than 10.5, if it worked at all.
 
chrismacguy said:
I dont know where you come from, in terms of viewpoint, but it isnt possible without access to Apple Internal Sourcecode. Even the most skilled hacker would need to put in thousands of man-years, because first youd have to reverse engineer both Operating Systems to completion, so you know whats changed, then youd need to recreate all the changes in such a way that they are identical in function to Apples Private, Closed-Source components. Then you'd need to bolt this on to a fundamentally changed PowerPC port of Snow Leopards Darwin, youd also need to port thousands of Intel-only headers to ensure binary compatability. Then youd need to meld on Leopards Applications or PowerPC versions of all of SnowLeopards - all many more hours of work, and even then it probably wouldn't work any better than 10.5, if it worked at all.
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I implied that it would end up running quite a bit worse than Leopard.
 
I downgraded my 1.6 G5 security DVR computer from Leopard to Tiger. It gained 4fps at the same video resolution for motion detected video.
 
chrismacguy said:
I know, I just felt your comment needed a bit of elaboration to ensure the OP didnt start attempting to do it... (Ive seen this happen before...or at least claimed to)
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Depending on who it was I might let them go for it, maybe even encourage them a little bit.
 
AWallen90 said:
Depending on who it was I might let them go for it, maybe even encourage them a little bit.
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I wouldn't, because without access to Apples Source Code, it would take a lot longer than a single lifetime. To do it, youd basically have to have as many people as Apple has, all as skilled as Apple's are, and then give them twice as long as they'd have to either obtain the source code to Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard thru industrial espionage, or you'd have to spend the extra year recreating as much of Leopard as possible. Its not like Aqua etc is exactly portable between machines.
 
LiamPlayz said:
buy a new mac
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Sigh. Typical Intel Mac user response to us PowerPC users.

We do HAVE OUR OWN POWERPC FORUM ON MACRUMORS you know! If you are the typical Intel user who cannot understand why anyone would use any Mac more than one month old then please stay in your forum for Intel Macs.

Here: https://forums.macrumors.com/categories/desktops.125/
or here: https://forums.macrumors.com/categories/notebooks.126/

We aren't bothering you guys over there by constantly interjecting about how great our PowerPC Macs are - you shouldn't be in our area telling us to 'Buy a new Mac'.

Further, as stated already - you dragged up a four year old thread just to make this comment?!
 
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eyoungren said:
Sigh. Typical Intel Mac user response to us PowerPC users.

We do HAVE OUR OWN POWERPC FORUM ON MACRUMORS you know! If you are the typical Intel user who cannot understand why anyone would use any Mac more than one month old then please stay in your forum for Intel Macs.

Here: https://forums.macrumors.com/categories/desktops.125/
or here: https://forums.macrumors.com/categories/notebooks.126/

We aren't bothering you guys over there by constantly interjecting about how great our PowerPC Macs are - you shouldn't be in our area telling us to 'Buy a new Mac'.

Further, as stated already - you dragged up a four year old thread just to make this comment?!
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This kid is like 7:
Not surprised.

He was also trying to get lion on a core2solo:
http://liamztutz.blogspot.com/
 
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Yes, I think it's been done on a PowerBook and you should now be able to install in on a Power Mac! Has anyone done this, I don't know is in possible YES!
 
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LAHegarty said:
Yes, I think it's been done on a PowerBook and should you should now be able to install in on a Power Mac! Has anyone done this, I don't know is in possible YES!
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Why did you raise a nine year old thread to answer a question that in all likelihood the OP no longer cares about?

Particularly when there are much newer threads that ask the same question?

Particularly when OP still shows as a newbie nine years later?
 
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