Re: Leopard on a PowerBook G4/667 ?

On Oct 27, 8:42 pm, demp...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Empson) wrote:
Steven Fisher <sdfis...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <4722ccbb$...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, cab <v...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Officially, Leopard requires at least a PowerBook G4/867 MHz.
I have a PowerBook G4/667 (Gigabit Ethernet) with 1GB RAM and a
100GB/7200rpm drive.

Will this machine support Leopard, although slowly for intensive tasks,
or will installation be forbidden ?

I don't know. However, Apple may have set the requirements where they
did to exclude certain video chipsets. For instance, menus are
transparent again, but there seems to be a blur effect under them now.
Ditto sheets, which also have gradient transparency.

On my PowerMac G4 (dual 1 GHz) with Nivida GeForce4MX card, I don't get
the translucent menu bar, so Leopard is gracefully falling back to
support at least some standard video cards in 2001-era PowerMac G4
models. I expect the same would apply with a PowerBook G4/667, if you
used a workaround to install Leopard on it.

--
David Empson
demp...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


I have Leopard installed on my 667 Gigabit PowerBook.
It runs well. Tiger actully never ran THAT well on on my Powerbook.
Leopard is about equal or better in some areas.
though booting takes forever. AM looking to upgrade to a gig of ram.
But aside from the translucent menu bar not working, everything seems
to run fine. Frontrow even works, cover flow, all seems work fine for
that Generation G4.
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