Will Power Mac G4 handle Snow Leopard?

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Will Power Mac G4 handle Snow Leopard?

Your advice please. On a Power Mac Power-PC G4 QuickSilver 733MHz running OS 10.4.11 is there any workaround that will mean Snow Leopard will run on it?

QuickSilver G4 733MHz 896MB 10.4.11, Mac Mini 1.66GHz 2GB 10.6.3, 16GB 3G iPhone, Mac OS X (10.6), 17" Apple Studio Display, 23" Dell Flat Panel

Posted on May 10, 2010 8:41 AM

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Answer 1

May 10, 2010 9:19 AM in response to Paul Irvine

None whatsoever. 10.6 Snow Leopard is for Intel Processors ONLY. NO PowerPC support.

You CAN move up to 10.5 Leopard, but not beyond. \[But you would need a hack to Install, since your processor misses the cutoff for installation. Whether the performance would be adequate once installed, only you can decide.]

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Paul Irvine Author

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May 10, 2010 9:58 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Thanks Grant. I'll keep it on 10.4.11. That's the most stable OS on it to be fair. Have ran Apple Software Updates previously and encountered nothing but heartache to get it reverted back to a happy start-up and usable state.

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