System Requirements for Leopard

[bluetooth]

I heard an ugly rumour today that the system requirements for Leopard will be minimum G5...can anyone confirm this?

 

[Kashchei]

As I recall, G3 machines are excluded but certainly not G5s!

 

[Royale w/cheese]

Have not heard anything like this, but I doubt this would happen as they still sell g4 laptops on the refurb page at apple online store. I think that would be quite bad for buyer loyalty if someone bought a g4 powerbook and in 2 and a half months they can't update it. Also in the past apple has been great for supporting their older hardware. So maybe it won't be the fastest, but I highly doubt that they would drop all the g4's from their support list. But it is a good chance that we will say bye to native g3 support.

 

[FredAkbar]

Apple originally had "From G3 to Xeon [...] there is only one Leopard" or similar on their Leopard site, but have since taken that down. I also heard (rumors site, etc.) that it would require a G4, and I remember people speculating that it requires Altivec on PPCs, which is why G3s can't run it.

 

[Royale w/cheese]

Do you think Xpostfacto will support it on G3's? That will make a family pack so much more appealing. But I still will get one anyway.

 

[Gymnut]

Some guy had posted this on MacNN. I'm guessing it was installation requirements for a developer seed?

http://forums.macnn.com/90/mac-os-x/304767/leopard-system-requirements/2/

 

[dmw007]

I would be willing to bet that Leopard will call for at least a PowerPC G4 processor.

 

[ApplePole]

I confirm that Leopard needs a G4, and, what is more, I read somewhere that it specifically asks for machines with 700MHz clockspeed or more. But the second I cannot be sure of.

 

[dmw007]

I confirm that Leopard needs a G4, and, what is more, I read somewhere that it specifically asks for machines with 700MHz clockspeed or more. But the second I cannot be sure of.

That sounds likely (e.g., Leopard requiring a 700MHz+ G4).