OS 10.5 - Running Leopard, iLife 09 and iWorks 09

avdavies · avdavies #1 (**permalink**)

06-23-2009, 05:56 AM

I am thinking of buying a G5 from ebay but as soon as I buy it I want to upgrade it to Leopard and run iLife 09 and iWork 09 on it.

Does anyone know if this one would be able to handle these applications. Its running on Tiger now.

2GB of DDR memory (UPGRADED)

160GB SATA hard drive

PowerPC G5 (3.1) 2.0 GHz processor

128 MB ATI video card

Sorry, I am so uneducated about these things any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Alan

bobtomay · bobtomay #2 (**permalink**)

06-23-2009, 07:27 AM

Personally would advise against purchasing a non-intel Mac at this point in time.

Yes, it will run all those programs. However, in the iLife package, that processor is the lowest supported for iMovie and the Garageband Learn to Play requires an Intel.

Unless you can get it "cheap" and realize up front, that machine will not run the new OS coming out in just a couple of months. It is the beginning of the end for any new software compatability for the PPC. It could be a quite satisfactory machine for awhile. But once Snow Leopard hits the shelves, no one knows at this point, how many developers will continue working on universal apps.

avdavies · avdavies #3 (**permalink**)

06-23-2009, 04:09 PM

Thanks for the response. Like I said any help would be really helpful.

Many thanks, Alan

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Member Since: Jun 23, 2009 Posts: 2	06-23-2009, 05:56 AM I am thinking of buying a G5 from ebay but as soon as I buy it I want to upgrade it to Leopard and run iLife 09 and iWork 09 on it. Does anyone know if this one would be able to handle these applications. Its running on Tiger now. 2GB of DDR memory (UPGRADED) 160GB SATA hard drive PowerPC G5 (3.1) 2.0 GHz processor 128 MB ATI video card Sorry, I am so uneducated about these things any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Alan
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