[X4U] Installing Leopard on an older Mac

[Christopher Collins]

I don't see why it shouldn't if you can get around the CPU  
requirement. And I believe the simplest way is to boot the dvd, go  
into terminal and type a few commands, and then install on any machine!

With that much RAM, Leopard will almost always be in memory, so that  
will make up for the CPU and disk controller speeds.

YMMV! Give it a go, it can't hurt.

cjc

PS	I think it might be time to get my 400 back from Mum and see what  
is involved!




On 17/12/2007, at 10:34 AM, Earle Jones wrote:

>
> 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  
>> if you want an older machine to speed up, throw RAM at it and put  
>> 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  
>> full change to Macs, and it is amazing the difference you get when  
>> you put 1GB in an older machine.
>>
>> And I'm not talking about going crazy with the hard disk either. I  
>> pulled out a 10GB that was in it, and just threw in a 7200rpm 40GB  
>> HDD I had lying around.
>>
>> After playing and rebuilding it, I gave it away to someone who is  
>> happily using it for web, email and office stuff.
>>
>> I never got around to installing Leopard on it, but I know with  
>> 10.4.10 and ubuntu 7.04, it just flew.
>>
>> YMMV!
>
> *
> My wife has an old G4/400 with about 2GB RAM and lots of HD and I  
> was wondering whether I should load it with Leopard.  I don't  
> particularly want to do a CPU upgrade.  Will Leopard do its thing?
>
> earle
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