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Then, as mentioned, he'd just boot the computer by holding 'option' at boot and select the external drive as the boot source.
#GAMES FOR G4 MAC OS 10.4 INSTALL#
Your friend would just need to get hold of a retail OX 10.5 DVD, boot the computer with that, plug in an external firewire drive and install the OS to that drive, not the internal one. Performance won't be quite as good, but if this is just a music server then that won't be an issue. If all he wants to use it for is music files and he doesn't mind having an external drive hanging off of it permanently, then that's probably the best solution here.īrinstar117: To expand on what hestermofet said, Macs can have their operating systems on external drives. This is why, for example, I'm about to hand my Penryn MBP down to my mom to replace her 1.25 GHz PB G4. Safari 4 and Firefox 3.6 are acceptable alternatives today, but the web is moving so fast that I don't trust them to stay usable for much longer. Firefox 4 will not run on PPC, once released. My concern about PPC machines is that they are about to be left behind in the browser department, which is really the killer app of personal computing at this point.
I probably would stop at Tiger on a 1 GB machine, but 2 GB is adequate for anything you will want to use a PPC machine for under Leopard. but each one does want more RAM than the previous one. Given enough RAM, my experience is that each major OS release performs better than the last. Strongly disagree with such an assessment, especially since the OP has 2 GB RAM. Only my 450MHZ G4 Cube runs better under 10.4.11 Tiger, but then again, it has a 450MHZ G4 and 768MB SDR SDRAM. In my experience, my 1.5GHZ PowerBook G4s (15 inch with Sudden-Motion-Sensor and 17 inch) perform very well under 10.5.8 Leopard. (*) Also, according to that page it can't boot into OS 9 natively at all, only run it via Classic (which lives inside OS X. (Obtain a 10.4 disk, download updates to 10.4.11 from Apple.) The trade-off is between better security and software compatibility with 10.5 or better performance with 10.4 (alleged, I have no direct experience with the performance of 10.4 vs 10.5 on this type of hardware).
#GAMES FOR G4 MAC OS 10.4 UPGRADE#
Apple doesn't sell it anymore) and download the updates to 10.5.8 from Apple.įor this machine, some people will probably recommend you to upgrade to 10.4.11 for performance reasons. This means that you can try to obtain a 10.5 install disk (eBay, Craiglist, etc. OS X 10.5.8, it says so in the page that you linked to (*) He also has an install disc from his current Apple notebook. It looks like the latest OS that can be installed is still the same (X 10.5.8) I updated the specifications link as well. The Powerbook is actually a Powerbook 5,2 not a 5,4 as I originally stated. What is the latest OS that the G4 Powerbook can run? (solved, X 10.5.8) Where can we find that?.
#GAMES FOR G4 MAC OS 10.4 FOR FREE#
Since we already have a license (I assume) can we get install disks for free or cheaply?
This is my first post in the Macintoshian Achaia. Disclaimer: I am not familiar with Apple computers.
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