For the Last Time!

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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.

[OWC Jamie]

[kj4btkljv]

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

[blooz]

Aww, how sentimental!

[Lew Zealand]

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.

[SKYLANE]

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.... :-)