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<br><div><div>On Jul 13, 2010, at 2:58 PM, J. R. Rosen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>I have a PowerMac G5 2.3Mhz (late 2005) running 10.4.11. OS 10.5 can't be found for under $175.00 (highway robbery), and 10.6 is only $30.00 - BUT it WILL NOT run on a non-Intel Mac!</div><div><br></div><div>Has anyone heard of a hack to allow G5's to be able to run 10.6?</div></span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>that's kind of the whole concept behind 10.6: among other things, all remaining PPC code was stripped out. 10.6 is designed to run only on intel-based macs.</div><div><br></div><div>I remember 10 years ago, when OS X first came out, there were hacks to enable borderline macs like the 7600 to run OS X through some hack, but this isn't like that; it's not about horsepower, it's about the code itself and the chip it requires to run.</div><div><br></div><div>zc</div></body></html>