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New Mac Mini 4.1 with Leopard

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fattstrat

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Jun 28, 2010
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Is there any reason I couldn't install Leopard on the new unibody Mac mini?

we have one lone program that wont run on snow leopard, I have tried both a virtual box intallation and BootCamp, I have even tried to just load leopard all get the same response.

Once I have choosen my language it tells me that Mac OS X cannot be installed on this computer. (i have a 10.5 mac mini disc as well as a 10.5 retail version)
 
I don't think that will work, as it shipped with 10.6 from the start. I'm guess Leopard doesn't have the drivers for it.
 
Apple doesn't look back. Their machine run the OS version they ship with or newer. Never previous versions. Out of curiosity, what program won't run on SL? As this was not a radical departure, most software runs on SL if it ran on Leopard.
 
It may be a driver issue as belvdr pointed out, but no Mac an have an older Mac OSX version installed than the one it came with, so no Mac OS X 10.5 on a Mac, that came with Mac OS X 10.6, and no Mac OS X 10.6.3 on a Mac that came with Mac OS X 10.6.4, although using an older Snow Leopard Retail DVD might work, but I haven't tried that.
 
the only driver that is different is the Graphics, and its in the same family. I don't think this is the problem, I have downgraded my macpro to 10.5 (i5).
 
eawmp1 said:
Apple doesn't look back. Their machine run the OS version they ship with or newer. Never previous versions. Out of curiosity, what program won't run on SL? As this was not a radical departure, most software runs on SL if it ran on Leopard.
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It is a Java driven XMF Client (fujifilms). I have downgraded the java to 5, but it still crashed in an imposition editor.

fuji does not have a SL upgrade yet, but we have to add more macs, and can't becuase of this problem.
 
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