[Cube] --- Rob In der Maur Cube] Leopard Install

[Rob In der Maur]

I have a Western Digital WD1200JB-75CRA0 115GB harddisk in the Cube; added
later because the original one died on me a long time ago.

cheers
Rob

> Do you have an upgraded hard drive in your Cube?  I
> have a Seagate Barracuda hardrive and a 1.25GHZ  GIGA
> cpu upgrade. I haven't tried to install leopard yet.
>
> --- Rob In der Maur <ridmaur at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> I had no problem at all installing Leopard on my
>> Cube with a Sonnet
>> 1.2 Ghz upgrade. There was no indication during the
>> complete install
>> through warning dialogs or else that my
>> configuration was not going
>> to work with Leopard. Whether it is officially
>> supported is a totally
>> different question though.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Rob
>>
>> On 30 Oct 2007, at 09:06, Joost van de Griek wrote:
>>
>> > James Whitfield wrote:
>> >
>> >> RibaI read the tech specs for Leopard. It says
>> that you need to be
>> >> running a 867 MHz or better processor. So maybe
>> you should upgrade
>> >> your processor. I think that Apple is slowly
>> phasing out the G4 users
>> >> period. So that we're forced to buy the Intel
>> processors.
>> >
>> > I doubt a processor upgrade will allow Leopard to
>> be installed;
>> > Apple are very
>> > strict about those things. According to them, Macs
>> cannot be
>> > upgraded, so a
>> > machine identifying itself as a Cube will be
>> unable to run Leopard.
>> > Simple as
>> > that.
>> >
>> > And of course Apple are phasing out support for
>> the G4 CPU; they
>> > phased out G3
>> > support before that, 60x support before that, and
>> 68K support
>> > before that. G4
>> > (desktop) machines are getting long in the tooth,
>> and technology
>> > moves on. That
>> > has little to do with "forcing" people to buy
>> Intel Macs; you can
>> > keep using
>> > your Cube as long as you wish. You won't be
>> running the latest and
>> > greatest OS
>> > and applications on it, but hey, if it works
>> today, there's no
>> > reason it
>> > shouldn't work tomorrow, right?
>> >
>> > Tiger didn't stop working (for me, anyway) the day
>> Leopard was
>> > released, and I
>> > have an old G3 running Panther just fine. It is
>> taking care of
>> > business just as
>> > well as it did when Panther shipped and I first
>> installed it. I
>> > just never saw
>> > a need to upgrade it to Tiger, and I don't see a
>> need to upgrade it
>> > to Leopard,
>> > either.
>> >
>> > ,xtG
>> > tsooJ
>> >
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