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LeopardAssist

Install OS X Leopard on sub-867 MHz G4 Macs.

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Nice, but . . .

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Contributed by: drtimothyjames Friday, December 21 2007 @ 04:41 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Have Not Tried

Recommend Product: YES

I honestly think this is a nice idea. But I tried Leopard on a PowerBook G4 with a 1 Ghz processor and 1 GB RAM. And Leopard ran dirt slow on that machine. I went back to Tiger. I have to imagine that someone with an even slower processor is simply going to be unhappy with the Leopard experience. While Leopard can technically work on these machines, I think it was designed for Intel Macs with faster processors. I think this scenario is simply inevitable as computers progress.   

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Nice, but . . . - ol_pip

Bang - right on. It is that the cpu models released during a certain time frame only have a limited amount of use before they are outdated due to advancements in processing speeds and because of that time in it's self has laid to rest many a beloved PowerPC. I've got a clean and quite operative SE/30 sitting in the closet that is for sale. Museum piece in some sense. Inquiries welcome. I have a 9600 Tower hollowed out and using as a flower planter in the backyard. There are web sites out there to assist in constructing working guppy tanks out of the original Macs. My current running Mac is a 733 so I'm right on the edge of thinking of installing a OS that already has problems so I've been reading? Upgrading to 10.4.11 from 10 caused Safari to not read bookmarks so I turfed that processor hungry app and now gone back to something I remember from a while back - Netscape Navigator (for OS X?!) Nah. Let's see 10.5.4 before it is maybe stable enough to buy in on another slightly better Mac and use the next level. This patch attempt is honorable trying to milk the last usefulness from yet another passing technology we all are sitting in front of at this moment. In a case like this I'm sticking with 10.4 until it becomes a not too long ago dinosaur like OS 4.1, 5.3, 6.4, 7.5... For the people who want to attempt the leap into Leo on pre-867s: do want you think is best and thanks for offering LeopardAssist 0.9 as a option. Won't get anythink like this from Apple.

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Saturday, December 22 2007 @ 01:16 AM PST