Mac question
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My 8 year old has a G4 laptop (hand me down from his aunt). I'm a PC person and know nothing about Macs. Question - can I buy him the new OS version and install it on this laptop?
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no, snow leopard (os x 10.6) will not run on PowerPC processors (g4,g5)..
leopard (10.5) will and it's very nice.. i have it on a 1.33 g4 powerbook. -
Thanks Jeff. 10.5 will still be a good upgrade for him.
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@arail1 said:
Thanks Jeff. 10.5 will still be a good upgrade for him.
I have lots of machines at my desk and at home and one of my test machines is a Powerbook G4 laptop running 10.4 Tiger. Sometimes I'll test something on that computer and forget to switch back over to a primary machine! Raw computing power aside, it works fantastically. I think you'll be very happy with Leopard on a PPC G4.
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