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    • arail1A Offline
      arail1
      last edited by

      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 hammondJ Offline
        jeff hammond
        last edited by

        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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        • arail1A Offline
          arail1
          last edited by

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

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          • AndrewSA Offline
            AndrewS
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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.

            Andrew S.
            SketchUp Release Engineer

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