Q: i have a ibook g4, can i install leopard?
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Jul 18, 2013 8:19 AMby dalstott,Yes. Leopard will work with only 512mb of RAm but you are wisely going to up grade to the maximum of 1.5gb. That way you will get the best performance with a moderate cost. The specs for the iBook 1.42GHz.
Built-in Memory
512 MB
Maximum Memory
1.5 GB
Memory Slots
1 - PC-2700 DDR333 200-pin SO-DIMM
Original OS
Mac OS X 10.4.2 (8D37)
Later OS
Mac OS X 10.4.4 (8G32)
Maximum OS
Mac OS X 10.5.8
Apple states the following basic Leopard system requirements, although, for some specific applications and actions (such as iChat backdrops) an Intel processor is required:
- Processor: any Intel processor, or PowerPC G5 or G4 (867 MHz and faster) processor
- Optical drive: internal or external DVD drive (for installation of the operating system)
- Memory: minimum 512 MB of RAM (additional RAM (1 GB) is recommended for development purposes)
- Hard drive capacity: Minimum 9 GB of disk space available.
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Jul 19, 2013 5:10 PMby a brody,HelpfulYes. The big gotcha about Leopard though is that you won't be able to use the Classic environment. So if you depend on Mac OS 9 compatibility, you'll want to partition the drive for 10.5 and 10.4.11 or earlier, which requires erasing it. But you should anyway be backing up before upgrading as my tip illustrates.
