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Leopard on a Powerbook G4?
- Thread starter gan6660
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i had a 1.5ghz powerbook with leopard on it.... It runs well, but Tiger is faster espically when playing back high rez video
Your powerbook will run Leopard.
Your iMac disc's will not work on it. You will need a retail copy.
Your iMac disc's will not work on it. You will need a retail copy.
Sky Blue
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Well there is a hack to disable the machine check, but its not allowed to run one copy on to machines...
OrangeSVTguy
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You can't anyways because the iMac is probably Intel(OP didn't state?) and you can't install Intel OS on a PPC machine.
So yeah, Just go out and pick up a Retail DVD of Leopard for $75? on ebay. It will run it well. You should also upgrade to 2gb(max) to get the best performance too.
LOL! Like you can't buy one copy of Mac OS and install it on 10,000 macs? You can.
But as pointed out, it's probably an Intel iMac, making it a no-go.
Actually it's definitely an intel iMac, otherwise it wouldn't be coming with Leopard.
0098386
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Yup, it'll run it. I just gave my folks my old G4 Powerbook with Leopard on it. No complaints here, cept it did take a while to boot and shutdown. Personally I'd stick with Tiger for such a machine.
If Snow Leopard still runs on PPC macs then I'd wait for that, what with it being more effecient and jazz.
If Snow Leopard still runs on PPC macs then I'd wait for that, what with it being more effecient and jazz.
Davy.Shalom
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Apple is dumping support for PPC with Snow Leopard. It is a shame. Leopard is your best bet, but tiger was MADE to run on PPC, leopard CAN, but will be a bit slower. Haha, I have both, one on each partition. Keep the old tiger discs around just in case you get sick of the slow boot times and lagg when running things like photoshop (use CS2)