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10.5.1 on G4?

Jan 1, 2011 3:46PM PST

Can I run 10.5.1 on my MBP G4?

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Theoretically, it will run
Jan 1, 2011 10:02PM PST

practically, it will just walk at an extremely slow pace.

You results depend entirely on the speed of the processor and the amount of RAM installed on your G4

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Like said
Jan 2, 2011 1:32AM PST

Like said, it will run, provided it meets the minimum CPU speed required, which I think is 867MHz, but you'd probably want to double check that.

How well it runs is a whole other story, and depends a lot on the G4 and RAM you have. I tried running it on an iBook G4 with a 1.2GHz CPU and 768MB of RAM. By and large it was adequate, but some operations were noticeably delayed. Unless you have a late model PowerMac G4 with 1-2GB of RAM, I wouldn't even bother. By the time you've bought additional RAM and a copy of 10.5, you'll probably be about 75% of the way to a new Mac Mini which has 10.6 and will run circles around any G4 system.