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For the Last Time! - space-time - 05-04-2010
My dear 5-year old PowerBook,
I won you at the Apple Store in West Farms Mall on a Friday evening of April 29, 2005 when the Tiger (10.4) was launched. I upgraded your RAM from 512 MB to 2 GB. I gave you a hard drive Transplant and now you have a 160 GB drive. I believe the 80 GB drive is still around the house somewhere. I just can't part with it.
I upgraded to Tiger from the night I brought you home. I booted you in Panther only once just see if everything worked, then I gave you only Tigers.
Now I just cloned you to an external drive, and I am about to wipe you clean and give you Leopard.
This is for the last time. I wish I could give you snow leopards, but those are rare and Apple decided only your younger siblings deserve them. Sorry, but it's not my fault.
Thanks for being such a great companion. I will always love you.
Re: For the Last Time! - OWC Jamie - 05-04-2010
Re: For the Last Time! - kj4btkljv - 05-04-2010
How fast is this PowerBook, I'm assuming G4 something, right? Of all the G4/G5 machines I've got, I stop at 10.4.11 Tiger.
I'm assuming Leopard works fine on PPC machines, I just don't bother with it. You might be different, and need Leopard for something specific.
Just sayin'...
Jeff
Re: For the Last Time! - blooz - 05-04-2010
Aww, how sentimental!
Re: For the Last Time! - Lew Zealand - 05-04-2010
10.5.8 works great on our PowerBook G4s and PowerMac G4 and G5. 10.4.11 is only used for occasional testing and on our iMac G4/800 as it's video card has the wake from sleep issue with 10.5. All have max RAM.
Re: For the Last Time! - SKYLANE - 05-05-2010
I have had success with Leopard on the following two machines:
1.5 GHz MacMini, RAM 1GB (no high horsepower software use)
Dual 800 MHz QuickSilver RAM 1GB (used as server only)
(loaded with help of a program called "LeopardAssist" )
Soooo, why not.... :-)