08-13-2007, 05:39 AM

May be a stupid question but ill give it a go anyway. I have a first generation Dual 2ghz g5 mac and am thinking of upgrading to a quad 2.5ghz powerpc g5 mac, but i dont want to reinstall anything. Is it possible to take the hard drive out of my dual 2ghz and put it in the new quad 2.5 ghz and have it boot and run normally? I know this deff wouldnt be possible with the new intel chip computers but the quad powerpc g5 has the same specs as the dual 2 ghz g5 does it not. A simple NO will do fine as long as your 100% sure this is not possible...thanks for your time and ear

Gus

08-13-2007, 01:02 PM

I think that would work but, I would check with Apple to be sure.

08-13-2007, 04:14 PM

there is no easy way of contacting apple without apple care so if anyone else can answer this question it would be much apreciated..thanks again

08-14-2007, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by gustafari

May be a stupid question but ill give it a go anyway. I have a first generation Dual 2ghz g5 mac and am thinking of upgrading to a quad 2.5ghz powerpc g5 mac, but i dont want to reinstall anything. Is it possible to take the hard drive out of my dual 2ghz and put it in the new quad 2.5 ghz and have it boot and run normally? I know this deff wouldnt be possible with the new intel chip computers but the quad powerpc g5 has the same specs as the dual 2 ghz g5 does it not. A simple NO will do fine as long as your 100% sure this is not possible...thanks for your time and ear

Gus

I recently bought a S/H Mac Dual 2Ghz G5 with Tiger installed, and dragged all the apps from my old G4 Dual 1.2Ghz running Panther, using the office LAN. Most worked just fine, except that PhotoShop 8.0 neede a re-install. Even Eudora was OK, but you need to drag the prefs over as well.

So... re-install a new system first.

Not a hassle at all.

LolIngram

08-14-2007, 07:07 PM

I'm pretty sure this would work with the Intel Macs too you know.

08-14-2007, 08:18 PM

really? intel macs? how sure are you?

08-14-2007, 10:04 PM

It wouldn't work on Intel, as the OS would be compiled for PPC.

It will work fine on PPC to PPC though. I actually installed Tiger on a G5, then took the HDD and plugged it into my G4 because my FireWire ports weren't working (which the installer checks for).