[X4U] Installing Leopard on an older Mac

[Earle Jones]

On Dec 16, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Christopher Collins wrote:

> As a tech in the PC world, one of the basic things I know is that =20
> if you want an older machine to speed up, throw RAM at it and put =20
> in a bigger (translates to faster) hard disk!
>
> This translates to Macs (both PPC and Intel) fine.
>
> We have a couple of old G4/400 machines that we bought before the =20
> full change to Macs, and it is amazing the difference you get when =20
> you put 1GB in an older machine.
>
> And I'm not talking about going crazy with the hard disk either. I =20
> pulled out a 10GB that was in it, and just threw in a 7200rpm 40GB =20
> HDD I had lying around.
>
> After playing and rebuilding it, I gave it away to someone who is =20
> happily using it for web, email and office stuff.
>
> I never got around to installing Leopard on it, but I know with =20
> 10.4.10 and ubuntu 7.04, it just flew.
>
> YMMV!

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My wife has an old G4/400 with about 2GB RAM and lots of HD and I was =20=

wondering whether I should load it with Leopard.  I don't =20
particularly want to do a CPU upgrade.  Will Leopard do its thing?

earle
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