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Downgrade Lion to Snow Leopard on new G5
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<blockquote data-quote="Zoolook" data-source="post: 1383006" data-attributes="member: 21101"><p>Need some clarifications here.</p><p></p><p>First of all, G5's will not work with anything newer than Leopard (10.5.x). They will not work with Lion or Snow Leopard (10.7, 10.6 respectively).</p><p></p><p>Secondly, if you're getting a new Mac, it will likely be Intel not a G5, and yes will probably ship with Lion. Prinergy won't work, because it relies on Rosetta (the Intel to PPC emulator). However, if you really are getting a 'new' G5 from somewhere, it will have to ship with 10.5 or lower.</p><p></p><p>I am not sure if Apple will ship new machines with Snow Leopard - you might be able to get a refurb that will support running Snow Leopard, and you can probably by a SL disk from ebay and do a clean install.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zoolook, post: 1383006, member: 21101"] Need some clarifications here. First of all, G5's will not work with anything newer than Leopard (10.5.x). They will not work with Lion or Snow Leopard (10.7, 10.6 respectively). Secondly, if you're getting a new Mac, it will likely be Intel not a G5, and yes will probably ship with Lion. Prinergy won't work, because it relies on Rosetta (the Intel to PPC emulator). However, if you really are getting a 'new' G5 from somewhere, it will have to ship with 10.5 or lower. I am not sure if Apple will ship new machines with Snow Leopard - you might be able to get a refurb that will support running Snow Leopard, and you can probably by a SL disk from ebay and do a clean install. [/QUOTE]
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