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How to get snow leopard on my powerbook G4?

Postby wujianggg » Thu Dec 10, 2009 4:45 pm

how do i
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Postby wzsqyfjh » Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:35 pm

You can't.

Snow Leopard does not support PPC.
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Postby jnson » Thu Dec 10, 2009 6:12 pm

You can't go any higher than Tiger with a G4.
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Postby Randy B. Singer » Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:50 am

jnson wrote:You can't go any higher than Tiger with a G4.


Actually, this is incorrect. Some G4-based Macs are limited to OS X 10.4 (Tiger), but the latter ones can go all the way to OS X 10.5.
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However, no G-anything based Macs can run OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). The G4 processor was an IBM/Motorola processor. Snow Leopard requires an Intel processor.
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