<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>10.5.8 runs comfortably on mine, dual booting with 10.3.9<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"John Smutko" <smutt235@mac.com><br><b>To: </b>"A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:45:48 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [G4] upgrade to Leopard<br><br><div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>My machine is a Quicksilver 2002 running Tiger. I am very happy with its performance overall. Although the apps I use might be considered outdated--Photoshop 7, Indesign 2, Finale 2008--they work just fine for my needs. However, the browsers I use, Safari and Mozilla Firefox, cannot be updated and I get a lot of messages saying I am using a browser that is not supported. Question: (two fold) how difficult would it be to upgrade my machine to Leopard and, will it make that much difference in terms of compatibility? Thanks.<br><br>Jim Scarborough Kirk<br></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Jim Kirk? Really? Awesome. </div><div><br></div><div>Have you done any upgrades on the Quicksilver? Leopard is certainly possible on a Quicksilver, I have one sitting under my desk right now. Depending on your processor (800 vs. 933 MHz) you may not have to do any upgrades. Minimum specs for Leopard are here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3759?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US" target="_blank">http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3759?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US</a></div><div><br></div><div>To get the full benefit I'd upgrade your processor and probably the video card as well, here's what mine looks like:</div><div><br></div><div>1.8 GHz processor</div><div>1.5GB RAM</div><div>ATI Radeon 8500</div><div>USB 2.0 Upgrade Card</div><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>G4 mailing list<br>G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com<br>http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4</div></body></html>