Does Snow leopard work on my iMac G5?

Sorry, no. Snow Leopard requires an Intel processor.

Stedman

JN1 wrote:

Does Snow leopard work on my iMac G5?

OS X 10.5 Leopard is the highest you can go on a PowerPC processor.

Snow Leopard isn't too much different than Leopard, just a few tweaks and stripping out of the PPC code, so your not missing much really.

And OS X 10.7 Lion, you can most certainly wait as long as possible before being forced to use it with a new machine purchase, perhaps a year from now the bugs and other annyoing issues will be resolved.

Lion also won't run on PPC processors (G4, G5 etc)and neither will it run Rosetta and your old G5 programs.

You can buy 10.5 Leopard online at places like Amazon.com.

Before upgrading to Leopard, be sure to determine if you need Classic. You won't have access to Classic, unless you erase and partition your hard drive:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61301

Or use an external Firewire hard drive to run 10.4.11 or earlier. Boot Camp is not available to iMac G5s. iTunes 9.2.1 offers some compatibility in 10.4 for items you may otherwise want iTunes 10 for which requires 10.5 or later be installed. See these links:

http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1056

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_version_history

You'll need to use the original iMac G5 installer discs to restore your Classic environment, if you find you have to erase or partition a drive, unless you cloned it before. See my FAQ* on cloning, which you should do before installing anything:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html