iBook G4 & Tiger

[Anonymous Freak]

Well, they theoretically do have access to the source code. In the form of Darwin. That's how XPostFacto was written, and Apple never took any legal action against that piece of software.

Of course, it also depends on at what level Apple removed G3 support. If it is solely in the kernel (which is open source,) then an XPostFacto-like hack could restore it. If it is in the GUI (which is closed source,) then we're out of luck. (Just as how 10.3 removed 603 and 604 support, even with XPostFacto. Although 10.2 didn't support pre-G3s until a later release of XPostFacto; it is possible that the current lack of support is due to lack of XPostFacto development effort, rather than technical impossibility.)

 

[~llama]

I have a PowerMac G4 500MHz that runs Tiger well. Before upgrading from Panther, however, I bumped the RAM to 512MB, and I think that's probably made the difference.

 

[Flash!]

.....I don't know anyone who does FCP editing or Maya on an iBook..../quote]
I use my 1GHz iBook for FCP projects. It's not super fast, but I don't ever feel like I'm waiting for the iBook to catch up when doing stuff on the timeline and so forth.... rendering can take a while though but I just set that to go overnight... bigest render so far has only been a couple of hours anyway. Oh and exporting to various formats can take a while too....but sheesh ya gotta remeber it's just an iBook ;-)

 

[iMac600]

IIRC, Leopard was stripped of it's PowerPC G3 code at every possible level, from system core right down to bundled applications, such as iChat, for example.

 

[CaryMG]

Sweet!

Thanks for all the help, guys !

Is "Tiger" a free upgrade download from Apple.Com or do I hafta buy it ?

Sorry for the silly question lol

Just make sure you put as much memory as you can afford into that thing ....

I have 1 GB -- is that OK ?

:b&w:

 

[iMac600]

1GB is most definitely enough for Tiger.

 

[CaryMG]

WootWoot! lol

Is "Tiger" a download or a retail product ?

:b&w:

 

[Cory5412]

Unfortunately, Tiger isn't being sold anymore by Apple themselves, although you may be able to find it retail if you look at smaller shops that had a bunch in stock when Leopard was released. You'd probably also be able to buy a retail copy on eBay.

Try to avoid the gray machine-specific discs from ebay, as well as talking about the other slightly-less-legal ways of acquiring it here on the forum.

 

[CaryMG]

Thanks, Cory !

Would it be OK ta ask if anyone has it for sale in TRADING POST section ?

:b&w:

 

[bluekatt]

also tiger was only availble as a dvd

you had to send your dvd in to get a set of 6 cd's back

some retailers also stock the cd version but usually it is dvd

keep that in mind

 

[Christopher]

Actually is 4 CD's.

 

[CaryMG]

also tiger was only availble as a dvd ....

Cool coolnessosity !

My iBook G4 has a DVD drive.

:b&w:

 

[SiliconValleyPirate]

Stick Leopard on it , my G4/667 TiBook runs 10.5 beautifully. All it takes is a little Open Firmware hackery (which has virtually no chance of harming the machine I might add) and you're good to go. The G4 iBooks use Radeon graphics chips too so you won't have much in the way of graphics issues. The more I look at the specs, actually the more I think it'd be a great laptop for running Leopard on. Radeon 9200, 32MB VRAM, DDR SDRAM, 30GB of hard drive space. I'd do it.

I have a G4/800 iMac and a G4/667 TiBook both running Leopard and it's great to use. Turn off the silly menu bar, hack the dock to the low-fi version and you're set.

 

[bluekatt]

Actually is 4 CD's.

and 2 xcode and developer tools cd's

 

[equill]

... Is "Tiger" a free upgrade download from Apple.Com or do I hafta buy it? ...

No reference release (upgrade) since 7.1—that is, 7.1, 7.5, 7.6, 8.0, 8.5, 9.0—has ever been either free or downloadable. Even full install CDs of Reference Release and upgrades—such as 7.1.1, 7.5.3, 7.5.5, 7.6, 7.6.1, 8.1, 8.5.1, 8.6, 9.0.4, 9.1—have had to be purchased. Despite that, Apple does now allow downloads of 7.5.3, thereby effectively making that updater into a full installer that does not need a prior installation of 7.5.

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[bluekatt]

...i wasnt aware 7.5 runs on ibooks

 

[Temetka]

It does not from what I understand. I could be off though.

 

[Christopher]

You don't know? Apple made SE models so you can use that telephone software and OS 7

 

[bluekatt]

It does not from what I understand. I could be off though.

i am not sure about y ou but i was being sarcastic

to an ibook user mac os 7 is rather useless

 

[equill]

...i wasnt aware 7.5 runs on ibooks

And now that you have had time to reread what I wrote, your point is?

Mine was that reference releases are (with the mentioned exception of 7.5.3) neither downloadable nor free.

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