What's the oldest computer Tiger can run on?

[Mammoth]

Yes, I am wondering what the flat out oldest Mac Tiger can run on at all without any hacking. ..and predictions of the oldest computer Leopard will run on.

 

[SkyBell]

laptop: Powerbook G3 (Firewire)
desktop: Powermac G3 (Blue and White)

As far as I know these are the oldest that can run Tiger.

For Leopard, I'm predicting a mid Powermac G4 will do, and an iBook G4.

 

[Lovesong]

Requirements
Macintosh computer with a PowerPC G3, G4 or G5 processor
Built-in FireWire
DVD drive for installation
256MB of RAM
3GB of available hard disk space (4GB if you?install the developer tools)

And upgrade cards don't work. So you'll need any G3.

Leopard- who knows... maybe 1GB of RAM, 128VRAM, 40GB of HD space, and a beige box (for the Ultimate edition)

 

[Mammoth]

It seems this is the oldest one then. Not too bad for 9 years old. Can Vista (let alone XP) do that?

 

[Lovesong]

It seems this is the oldest one then. Not too bad for 9 years old. Can Vista (let alone XP) do that?

Oh Sure...
Just use FW to hook up about 10 or 11 of them...

 

[SkyBell]

t seems this is the oldest one then. Not too bad for 9 years old. Can Vista (let alone XP) do that?

Yeah, the PB G3 like I mentioned above. Why do you want to know?


I know people who have gotten XP running on 386's...

 

[Markleshark]

It runs like a dream on my G3 900Mhz iBook.

... Now for some more RAM...

 

[d-fi]

i use tiger on a 300mhz G3 b/w powermac and it works great for basic stuff but you won't be using iMovie or anything.

 

[madmaxmedia]

Slot-loading iMacs (350MHz and up) and up are fine with OS X.

The tray-loading models will still run OS X, but had some limitations-
http://lowendmac.com/macdan/04/0910.html

I don't know if there were any such limitations with other Mac lines.