#Firefox for mac powerbook g4 update
My Leopard DVD installed version 10.5, but the latest version of Leopard is 10.5.8, so I went and ran Software Update to get as up-to-date as I possibly could. Your iPhone may have more storage space than my iBook. Also, Leopard is bulkier than Tiger, so I had to clear off lots of disk space to fit it on my 30GB hard drive with room to spare. Installation went smoothly and it runs reasonably well on the G4, but the iBook loses out on some of Leopard’s visual effects, such as the transparent menubar. Leopard is the last version of OS X that worked with PowerPC-based Macs. I had a spare copy of Leopard (10.5), though, and I figured that I have a better chance of running more current software with this version, so I went ahead and upgraded. It had been running OS X Tiger (10.4), which is over nine and a half years old, but ran well on my hardware. My first challenge was to get my iBook up and running with something approaching a workable version of OS X.
I wish Apple would release a new thinner, lighter Mac notebook that shared its basic proportions, but that might be wishful thinking-Apple doesn’t seem to be big on standard 4:3 displays these days. Sure, this old Mac is bulky and heavy compared to today’s svelte notebooks, but I have a soft spot for the iBook’s compact design. Its 12.1-inch, 1024-by-768 screen is small by modern standards, though it was reasonable in 2004 (it’s amazing how much more screen real estate websites require these days).
This iBook G4 shipped with 256MB of memory-a bit tight, even in 2004-but I eventually maxed it out to a more spacious 1.25GB. My iBook is based around a 1.2GHz PowerPC G4 processor, a 30GB hard drive, and an AT Mobility Radeon 9200 GPU with 32MB of video memory.
To see what I could accomplish with an old Mac, on a whim, I pulled my ten-year-old iBook G4 out of the closet and fired it up. There’s also a good chance, though, that you can still use that old Mac for something productive (or fun)-be it to run old games, check email, or give the kids something to use to write papers. If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance that you have some sort of old old Mac sitting around the house gathering dust.
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