[X4U] Installing Leopard on an older Mac

K. Jerry Smith explorerguy at mac.com
Fri Dec 14 18:23:00 PST 2007


On Dec 14, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:

> On 12/14/07 9:06 AM, K. Jerry Smith <explorerguy at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a friend who attempted to install Leopard on an 800 Ghz  
>> TiBook.
>> Officially, the highest version of the OS that can be installed on
>> that model is 10.4.11. He called Apple, and was told Leopard would
>> install on it, though, and purchased the new OS.
>
> Leopard's minimum sytem requirements for G4 processors are a speed  
> of 867MHz
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/
>
> This requirement rules out installation on an 800MHz TiBook (which I  
> think
> is what you meant to type instead of 800GHz)
>

Oops, a slip of ye olde fingers.  :-)

Thanks,
Jerry



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