Will Leopard like a G3 iBook?
I agree with the above posters: no matter how tempting that purchase may be, it is not worth it to purchase a G3-based machine at this point in time. This is coming from someone who bought his first G4 about a year and a half ago and still doesn’t have a G5 or an Intel machine. That said, there is an application called XPostFacto which is designed to allow you to run newer versions of OS X on older machines. I’ve used it with limited success to get Panther running on beige G3s and similar. However, as cillit bang implies, Apple is or may be making changes to the OS in Leopard that would remove any actual ability to run on G3s. They do something like that at every update, as you seem to know, but while it’s sometimes an easy-to-hack cosmetic “don’t let the installer run on X hardware”, there’s nothing to say that the changes in Leopard won’t be deeper than that.
he, I just saw a G3 iBook running Leopard last weekend. It was done by installing Leopard while the harddisk was placed in a G4 iBook and then they just switched disks. That said, don’t count on using it for anything but nerdy fun projects. I gave my niece my Graphite SE for surfing in the living room, as her iMac is a bit too clumsy to carry around, and it is suitable for that. I think I left it at 10.3.9, but am not sure. The problem may not only be the G3 processor, btw, but rather the video card.
