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Upgrade to Leopard 10.5
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hirise123
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Sep 5, 2011, 03:06 PM
 
Can the Leopard 10.5 install disk from a Mac book 13" be used on a 20" IMac G5 Power PC with a 2.0 processor and 2 gig ram, I know that is as far as this comp can be upgraded. Most of the game and education apps require 10.5 or up. Thank you
     
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Sep 5, 2011, 03:15 PM
 
No.
     
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Sep 5, 2011, 03:16 PM
 
A retail Leopard DVD would work on either. The Leopard install DVD included with the MacBook is likely to omit much of the PPC code. I'd say it will not work.
     
hirise123  (op)
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Sep 5, 2011, 04:27 PM
 
Thank you every one, I thought that was too easy.
     
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Sep 5, 2011, 08:11 PM
 
Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot View Post
No.
This.
The reason is that Apple designed it that way. There's no guess work involved. It won't work.
Ya gotta applaud those bunnies for sacrificing their hearing just so some guy in Yonkers can have better TV reception.
     
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Sep 6, 2011, 05:15 AM
 
Originally Posted by reader50 View Post
A retail Leopard DVD would work on either. The Leopard install DVD included with the MacBook is likely to omit much of the PPC code. I'd say it will not work.
Intel Mac DVDs were restricted to specific models whereas PPC ones were restricted to product lines towards the end of their run. All that aside, Intel Mac DVDs include virtually no PPC code at all I believe. They don't even boot PPC Macs to run Disk Utility.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
     
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Sep 6, 2011, 05:39 AM
 
Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep View Post
Intel Mac DVDs were restricted to specific models whereas PPC ones were restricted to product lines towards the end of their run. All that aside, Intel Mac DVDs include virtually no PPC code at all I believe. They don't even boot PPC Macs to run Disk Utility.
They include all the PPC libraries - that's required for Rosetta - and I think they have the same included applications, but they may exclude PPC versions of the kernel, extensions and UNIX userland.
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
     
   
 
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