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afternoon, tried to download skype on my power book g4 and it after download I try to open the dm and it says wont work with this artitecture.
I am running 10.5.8 after I have download the dm the window that I should put it into the applications had like a do not enter symbol.
Thank you for your help
Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Your Mac is too old to run it.
http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-mac/
Click the system requirements on that page & you will see…
- 1GHz Intel processor.
- Mac OS X 10.5.8+.
- 100 MB free disk space.
- Either USB or regular headset if your Mac does not have a built-in microphone.
- Download drivers if you are using an external webcam.
- For voice calls recommend broadband connection with 100 kbps down / 100 kbps up.
- For group video calling everyone on the call needs Skype 5.0 for Windows or Mac or higher plus webcams. For best quality we recommend you use a high-speed broadband connection of 4Mbps down/512kbps up and a computer with a Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz processor. As a minimum you’ll need a high-speed broad connection of 512kbps down/128kbps up and a computer with a 1 GHz processor.
Your Mac has a Power PC processor not an Intel CPU.
See Skype's FAQ for more info…
Skype 2.8 from 2011 is the final version that works with G4, G5, and OS X 10.3.9 and later.
You can get it here by using Skype's webpage from the Wayback Machine archived web page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120211171734/http://download.skype.com/macosx/Skyp e_2.8.0.866.dmg
Skype (v.5 or later) is for Intel Macs running OS 10.5.8 or above only.
And from September 2014 no more Skype for PPC Macs:
See this post from Andyyyyyy for a possible way of getting round that:
skype wont work with my mac os 10.5.8
