[G4] firmware: update needed?

[Harry Freeman]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHaHaHaHaHaHahahahahahaha
Sorry to laugh, however Eric I have a 2000 Mac G4 Sawtooth and Leopard  
runs just fine.
In fact it runs better than Panther did and faster.


Best regards,

Harry ( + )!( + )
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On Mar 12, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Eric Smith wrote:

> Skygram wrote:
>
>> Whereas the retail versions of of any iteration of OS-X will work  
>> on any
>> Mac. Lately there are limits to which generation of Mac that  
>> Leopard will
>> work with. However I have been reading that there are tweaks to  
>> also make it
>> functional on any Mac.
>
> Well, "any Mac" is going a bit too far. :)  Leopard requires an Intel,
> G5, or better than 867 MHz G4 CPU, plus 512MB or more of RAM. There  
> are
> workarounds to override the the G4 processor speed requirement but  
> not,
> as far as I know, the memory size requirement.* Of course trying to  
> run
> Leopard with less than 512MB of RAM is probably a bad idea anyway.
>
> There are some other general requirements - a DVD drive, 9GB or more  
> free
> disk space. And some Leopard apps require specific HW as well. For  
> example
> Time Machine, Front Row and DVD Player require a graphics card that  
> supports
> Core Image.
>
> * One way to run Leopard on an under-spec'd system would be to  
> install it
> on a conforming system and then simply move the disk to another  
> machine.
>
> Eric
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