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

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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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