Running mountain lion on power Mac g5 possible?

[212rikanmofo]

I heard that it's possible with a hack to be able to install mountain lion on a power Mac G5? Is this possible?

 

[innominato5090]

no, mountain lion is only x64 compatible.

 

[NeoMayhem]

I heard that it's possible with a hack to be able to install mountain lion on a power Mac G5? Is this possible?

Never going to happen, sorry. People have had success getting it running on older Intel machines that are not supported though.

 

[Mal]

Nope, even Snow Leopard won't run with all the hacks in the world on a G5, because it doesn't contain the PPC code necessary.

jW

 

[NeoMayhem]

I changed my mind, it IS possible:

http://build-its.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-fit-your-pc-in-power-mac-g5-case.html

If you use the right hardware, you can turn it into a hackintosh that is still 'apple labeled', allowing you to install OS X.

 

[Major.Robto]

(facepalm)

ppcg5 was droped at 10.6 your two versons to late.

 

[Mal]

I changed my mind, it IS possible:

http://build-its.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-fit-your-pc-in-power-mac-g5-case.html

If you use the right hardware, you can turn it into a hackintosh that is still 'apple labeled', allowing you to install OS X.

That's still not a G5, no matter what you put in the case. The PowerPC G5 processors will not, under any circumstances, run 10.8.

jW

 

[maflynn]

I heard that it's possible with a hack to be able to install mountain lion on a power Mac G5? Is this possible?

No, because its not a an artificial barrier, apple has not included the PPC code in OSX since 10.5.

If you have a G5, your only option is to upgrade to a new computer if you want to use Mountain Lion