PowerPC G5 to Intel?

Hello out there!

Like many others on here I'm a newbie to the Mac experience. I recently purchased on eBay a used iMac G5; OS X ver. 10.4; 2 GHz PowerPC; 2DB DDR SDRAM for $425 USD.

My question is... is it possible to upgrade this iMac from the PowerPC processor to an Intel processor?

Thanks in advance!

I hate to disappoint you but no. AFAIK there is no way to do that.In addition to being a completely different architecture for the CPU there were other structural changes that came with the shift to Intel chips.

Depending upon the tasks you want to perform that iMac may still be quite useful to you. I had a Mac G5 tower with similar specs that I was using for a number of day to day computing tasks until it died recently after much heavy use.

Thanks Sylvester! Yes, disappointed but then again... I only spent $425 for it.

I'm a free lance fashion designer and I'll be installing Adobe CS3 Suite. What kind of performance should I expect?

txjaimetx said:

My question is... is it possible to upgrade this iMac from the PowerPC processor to an Intel processor?

Thanks in advance!

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Plain & simple...no you cannot!

- Nick