Leopard on a G4 Powerbook??

debiso · #1 November 13th, 2007, 09:48 AM

My son has a G4 Powerbook 1ghz, 1.25gb ram. He wants to upgrade to Leopard. Will this work OK? What will happen to his apps like Garage band and Photoshop? Do I need to buy a specific version to run on PPC vs Intel?

Thanks!
Joe

**Giaguara** · #2 November 13th, 2007, 10:04 AM

That should work, as he has system requirements.
Mac OS X install discs should be universal.
Garageband and iLife - will depend on the version he runs now how smooth they will work, the recent ones will work better.
For Photoshop ... have a search for the 10.5 issues and bugs thread, as that has some versions of CS listed. If it's an older version of Adobe, it may not run or not run as good.

Cow Loon · #3 November 13th, 2007, 11:47 AM

I have a 1.5ghz G4 powerbook that I have installed leopard on, and it runs. There was no special version of leopard for PPC at the store. I don't have garageband or ilife.

Yellowbeard · #4 November 13th, 2007, 01:29 PM

I have the same system & it actually feels quicker after the Leopard upgrade. I am very happy with it.

debiso · #5 November 13th, 2007, 01:34 PM

Sounds like a go! I will give it a try tonight. Now for the BIG question... Full install, archive & install or upgrade?!?!?

Yellowbeard · #6 November 13th, 2007, 01:58 PM

Well i have heard good and bad about all, you should have faith and feel good about doing the upgrade, that after all is the easiest. Whichever way you go BACK UP THE CURRENT INSTALL FIRST. I used an unregistered copy of SuperDuper & an external firewire drive to do this, then I whipped the disk clean and did a full install. Upon reboot I used the migration assistant to import my user folder from the backup. Sure I had to reinstall all my apps, but I also got rid of some that I never use and will install others as I need them. Overall I am really happy with the way that it went and highly recommend going that route.

Cow Loon · #7 November 13th, 2007, 02:01 PM

My experience was that I first upgraded with archive and install, and it hung with the spinning ball from the village in the tv british show the prisoner, of death, after booting. So, I did a clean install and that worked.

But, it might have been the same problem I had later, which is that DiVX hangs on startup. So, maybe after upgrading, you could boot to single user mode (hold down cmd-s during boot) and remove (move away) /Library/QuickTime/DivX... and/or /Library/DivX...". and have it work.

There other thing I read about searching the web was people having Application Enchancer (APE) cause hanging. I didn't have that problem.

But a clean install was what I ultimately did and it worked for me.

SGilbert · #8 November 13th, 2007, 02:51 PM

Go for it!

Be aware, however, that there is NO CLASSIC whatsoever. Also, if you have Photoshop 7, it will not work.