OS 10.5 - Leopard on Older mac?

benben2142 · benben2142 #1 (**permalink**)

04-11-2009, 10:40 AM

Will leopard lagg and go slow if it runs on a 733Mhz PPC G4 processor along with Ilife nine and Iwork nine Using leopard assist?

louishen · louishen #2 (**permalink**)

04-11-2009, 10:48 AM

It will be a bit sluggish on that G4, as well, some parts of iLife 09 will not run at all

Apple - iLife - System requirements for iLife â€™09 on the Mac.

Saying that Tiger works fine on that G4 (Ihave got one) and iWork 08 works but is a little slow

Zero · Zero #3 (**permalink**)

04-11-2009, 03:23 PM

Without some "modification" - you can't install Leopard on any G4 less than the 867mhz. Saying that...I have leopard on my 1.0ghz G4 emac and it runs ilife09 OK - not great. Once it loads, its OK. The operating system (leopard) itself is noticeably slower than Tiger too (IMHO). I have 1GB memory on that emac too. Its tolerable, but I don't know if I recommend it.

kahlil88 · kahlil88 #4 (**permalink**)

04-11-2009, 05:49 PM

LeopardAssist will allow you to install it on sub-867MHz computers, but it's probably a TERRIBLE idea! I'm running Leopard on a 1.33GHz iBook G4, and it can barely play movies a lot of the time. Fortunately, I have very simple needs, so it doesn't bother me too much.

benben2142 · benben2142 #5 (**permalink**)

04-12-2009, 12:10 AM

So should I just get leopard? Or should I buy the Mac Box set? I actually honestly have no need for the Ilife but I just wanted to be sorta complete.

kahlil88 · kahlil88 #6 (**permalink**)

04-12-2009, 03:27 AM

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Originally Posted by benben2142

So should I just get leopard? Or should I buy the Mac Box set? I actually honestly have no need for the Ilife but I just wanted to be sorta complete.

I would recommend installing Tiger if you can get your hands on it. It's technically possible to run Leopard, but you'll have the world's slowest computer.

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Member Since: Mar 26, 2009 Posts: 20	04-11-2009, 10:40 AM Will leopard lagg and go slow if it runs on a 733Mhz PPC G4 processor along with Ilife nine and Iwork nine Using leopard assist?
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Member Since: Mar 26, 2009 Posts: 20	04-12-2009, 12:10 AM So should I just get leopard? Or should I buy the Mac Box set? I actually honestly have no need for the Ilife but I just wanted to be sorta complete.
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