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Leopard on Powerbook G3?

At 500Mhz, 768MBs of ram, and a 5400rpm 40GB drive, my Powerbook G3 runs Tiger quite well.

What are the chances it'll run Leopard? Even if I updated the drive to a 7200rpm model, I'm worried the graphics requirements will be too much for my reliable old machine to handle.

Any word out there on the minimum requirements will be?

Powerbook G3 500Mhz, Mac OS X (10.4.8), 768 RAM

Posted on Oct 9, 2006 10:59 PM

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Posted on Oct 10, 2006 3:30 AM

The rumors are pointing to a G4 and above requirement for Leopard. But we won't know for sure until Apple releases the official information.

However, even when Apple says it does not work, it often does work if one can get around the restrictions imposed by the installation process. For example, a tray-loader iMac is not supported by Tiger, but if you can get it installed on the hard drive by using a supported (PPC) Mac and an external Firewire case, it works just fine.

Having said that, I think the best version of Mac OS X for Pismo (and most G3 Macs), is Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther).
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User profile for user: Kenichi Watanabe
Kenichi Watanabe
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Oct 10, 2006 3:30 AM in response to Enio Rigolin2

The rumors are pointing to a G4 and above requirement for Leopard. But we won't know for sure until Apple releases the official information.

However, even when Apple says it does not work, it often does work if one can get around the restrictions imposed by the installation process. For example, a tray-loader iMac is not supported by Tiger, but if you can get it installed on the hard drive by using a supported (PPC) Mac and an external Firewire case, it works just fine.

Having said that, I think the best version of Mac OS X for Pismo (and most G3 Macs), is Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther).
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Oct 10, 2006 3:50 AM in response to Enio Rigolin2

I think Panther runs best on the older G3 Macs with 8MB VRAM (or less), but Tiger may be "better" these days because more and more software titles are requiring Tiger. Once Leopard is here, almost all new software releases will require "10.4 or later" (one version back).
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Oct 10, 2006 8:11 AM in response to Kenichi Watanabe

I run Tiger on both my G4/550 processor upgraded Pismo and my Pismo 500, and both run at least as well as Panther, maybe even better. I hesitated a long time before installing Tiger, because Panther was running so well. I have no regrets for moving to Tiger.

Leopard? I will just have to wait and see.

Good luck.

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