Leopard to exclude 800MHz systems

Leopard will not install on an 800 MHz G4. Thought the speed was a recommendation not a hard requirement. Tried. Apple did take it back less 10% restock fee and a credit to the store. Time to move up.

So an 800mhz iBook isn't officially supported, but I've heard that in beta that Leopard ran fine on an 800mhz machine. The question: if I try anyway, will the Leopard install throw up a block and tell me "sorry, you're not worthy?" or will it just warn me and let me try anyway? I think my sysem's up to snuff in all other respects.

How very 'Vista' of them. :

" My own 1.25GHz iMac barely makes the cut, which means it will run Leopard slowly, even packed with RAM."

Who told you that? When Tiger came out, it "just barely" ran on the old G3 iMacs, which ran faster and better on Tiger than they ever had before.

I still own and use a 12-inch, 1.5GHz Powerbook G4 (with 1.25GB RAM) that runs like a champ. I have no doubt that it will run Leopard splendidly.

It seems to me that owners of seriously old hardware have no case at all when they complain that the latest developments aren't supported on their ancient machines. If you want access to the very latest technology, keep your computer up-to-date, Stupid!

First question: Where do you get off saying that 1,250 is "barely" higher than 850? Your 1.25GHz iMac passes with flying colors in my opinion.

Also, I don't know what gives you the idea that it will run "slowly" on your iMac, but the case has been in the past that successive versions of OS X run much FASTER than their predecessors, not the other way around.

Relax. Leopard is going to kick ass.

The last 800mhz macs to be available were:

iBook G3 - Discontinued October 22nd 2003
eMac G4 - Discontinued October 22nd 2003

The oldest 867mhz mac capable of running leopard is:

Power Mac G4 - Discontinued January 28th 2002

Weird, isn't it?

Running 10.4.10 on a 466MHz Graphite clamshell iBook here (576MB RAM) and it's much smoother than Panther was. I'm sure there'll be some way to get Leopard working, even if it's not supported.

so we keep running Tiger on

By the time I get it, I will probably have upgraded my processor already. I may throw in the 450mhz g4 to test it though.

Now an earlier update to 1.8ghz this year for my Cube seems to be a much better move. It's tough for the old die-hard users, however.