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    arail1
    last edited by 5 Oct 2009, 01:24

    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?
    TIA

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      jeff hammond
      last edited by 5 Oct 2009, 03:05

      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.

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        arail1
        last edited by 5 Oct 2009, 03:19

        Thanks Jeff. 10.5 will still be a good upgrade for him.

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          AndrewS
          last edited by 5 Oct 2009, 08:13

          @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.

          Andrew S.
          SketchUp Release Engineer

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