Hi, my friend has this old power mac that he might want to give to me for use in my video editing. I don't know all the spec's of the computer, but I was wondering if it would be possible for me to clone my harddrive from my current macbook onto a hd on the powermac, so I can use all my current programs, specifically iLife? Or would I have to purchase another copy of ilife so I can use it?
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Intel binaries aren't compatible with PowerPC :-(
I don't know if you've installed the Universal versions, or if that would make a difference... but my first instinct is to say that it probably isn't going to work.
It's a G4 733 MHz PowerPC... so I'll probably won't be able to do what I was planning.
Oh well...
Oh well...
For video editing???? Heck I wouldn't even recommend that for Bolo.
Ok, maybe for Bolo.
Are you referring to Hard drive format? Where did you hear that? The HDD format is completely independent of the Processor type. HFS+ Journaled is still the format by default for OS X.
Leopard is Universal but I've found it painfully slow on the slower G4 machines. It's not pleasant with a load of 5 or 6.
It's the type of partition that makes the difference. Intel uses a GPT disk, by default. You "can" run it on another partition type, but you have to do strange things to accomplish it