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Leopard on Powerbook ?

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Titch Jobs

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Dec 10, 2007
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I am currently bidding for a Powerbook laptop on eBay and it has 120GB with a 1GB RAM.
It has a 1.5GHz processor and is running OSX Tiger. Can this be eventually upgraded to OSX Leopard ??

Also can the RAM be easily upgraded ?? If so, what is the maximum amount it can take?

One last question....can the processor be upgraded at all?

Thanks

Mike
 
yes, it can be upgraded to leopard, but i'm not sure what the maximum ram capacity of that system is. finally, the cpu cannot be upgraded in any way whatsoever. good luck with the bidding.
 
I've got a 12" PB G4 with 1.5GHz processor. The max ram mine can take is 1.25gb which is what I've got in it. It's running Leopard absolutely fine.
 
PB G4 15" 1.67 mghz w/ 2GB RAM

I have the above mentioned PB with Leopard running on it and it runs great. Much better than with Tiger. I've the impression that Leopard now uses the video ram much more effectively, thus freeing up the CPU for other processes.

There are still a few kinks in Leopard, obviously. But all in all, it runs great and has given new life to my aging PB. In fact, since having installed Leopard, my need to upgrade to a new Mac has been shelved for the time being.

Cheers.
 
I've got Leopard on a 1.25GHz PowerBook 15, with 1GB RAM, and no problems so far. So far, with my limited usage patterns, Leopard seems just as smooth on my PowerBook as on my iMac (2.0Ghz Core Duo), but then again, I do tend to treat my aging PB a bit differently...
 
Just letting you guys know that I have won the bid on eBay. I won a PB with 512MB RAM that I can easily upgrade, 60GB Hardrive and OS X Tiger already installed and Office.

Thanks for all your help

Mike
 
Titch Jobs said:
Just letting you guys know that I have won the bid on eBay. I won a PB with 512MB RAM that I can easily upgrade, 60GB Hardrive and OS X Tiger already installed and Office.

Thanks for all your help

Mike
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congrats! now you do realize that you'll do yourself a great favor if you installed more memory into the thing? i've heard 2gb kingston kit for those models is a steal nowadays.
 
I have a 15" 1.5GHz powerbook with 1 gegs of RAM, it runs Leopard criminally fast compared to Tiger. It is almost like getting a CPU upgrade for free. FYI, I did an upgrade from Tiger not a clean install :cool:.
 
Titch Jobs said:
Just letting you guys know that I have won the bid on eBay. I won a PB with 512MB RAM that I can easily upgrade, 60GB Hardrive and OS X Tiger already installed and Office.

Thanks for all your help

Mike
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I think the max RAM for your machine is 2 GB. I've got a 1.33 GHz PB and 2 GB is the most it can support.
 
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