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 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Cube mailing list >> > Cube at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> > >> > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/cube >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Cube mailing list >> Cube at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/cube >> > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Cube mailing list > Cube at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/cube >