Latest thrift store find - Ruby iMac (400MHz G3)

[Ray Arachelian]

Guy Sotomayor wrote:
>>
>> Yes, but Leopard (10.5) doesn't run on a machine that old.
>
> To be fully accurate, Leopard doesn't run on a machine that slow.  I
> believe the cutoff was 867MHz.  And as was announced at WWDC on
> Monday, Snow Leopard doesn't support any of the PPC machines.
>
To be even more accurate, it does run on machines with clocks under
867MHz, but it refuses to install.  To get around that you can change
the Open Firmware settings to lie about the CPU speed an fool the
installer - at least during the install: 
http://lowendmac.com/osx/leopard/openfirmware.html

Not sure if that will run on a G3 or not, but it will certainly work on
G4's under 867, but you can always try and see if it works.  Well, maybe
"run" isn't the proper word... maybe walk, or crawl would be more
accurate, although on G4's of that speed, I understand that Leopard is
actually faster than Tiger (provided you've got enough RAM.)