I have a powermac g4 tower that I wanted to upgrade to osx 10.5 since that was as high as I could go on non-intel hardware. I wanted to be legitimate and not just "share" a copy from another machine. This turned out to be non-trivial as Apple moved all references and sales to 10.6 (at the time) and all the usual web sites selling old software were apparently aware of this, jacking up the price to hundreds of dollars. I finally ended up buying one from eBay for a more sane price that was still north of $100. So just be prepared. Folks who have stocks of 10.5 in the shrink-wrap know the non-intel Mac users have nowhere else to go and will price accordingly. That cheap ppc Mac might not be such a deal if you want it somewhat current legally.
CB Sent from my iPhone On Sep 23, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Aimee Glover <awildh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you so much. Now I gotta find it to buy. > > Aimee. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 23, 2011, at 6:29 PM, BlindMacMan <blindmac...@mac.com> wrote: > >> Hello! I still have my PPC iMac G5 and it is running Leopard 10.5.8 >> just fine... Do *NOT* go with Tiger 10.4.x... The improvements in >> Leopard's VoiceOver alone make it worthwhile. >> >> HTH >> >> Lou/BlindMacMan. >> On Sep 22, 6:28 pm, Aimee Glover <awildh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> It won't run anything higher than a certain version of leopard because >>> it is pre-intel. It was kind of a freebie and I'm ok as long as it >>> will be somewhat useable. >>> >>> Aimee >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Sep 22, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Mike Arrigo <n0...@charter.net> wrote:> >>> Leppard has some voiceover improvements, even still, this operating system >>> is 2 versions behind the current one, I would say that it's not practical >>> to go this root. >>>> On Sep 21, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Aimee Glover wrote: >>> >>>>> My husband brought home a first generation G5 iMac. At least as far as >>>>> VoiceOver, which would be better. I have had no experience with Mac >>>>> pre SL, so I am truly clueless. Will open office work on it with vo? >>>>> We need to upgrade the ram because it only has 512. I want to replace >>>>> the windows desktop computer with this one because it is inaccessible >>>>> without speech. Thanks so much for all the help. >>> >>>>> Aimee >>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group >>>>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group >>>> athttp://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
