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As a Quad G5 owner, might I recommend OS X "Sorbet" It's an unofficial merging of OS X 10.5 with PowerPC builds of 10.6 components. Even on ancient G3's it out-

As a Quad G5 owner, might I recommend OS X "Sorbet" It's an unofficial merging of OS X 10.5 with PowerPC builds of 10.6 components. Even on ancient G3's it out-performs both 10.4 and 10.5 in benchmarks

hollandheese 3y ago
Wait... how'd you get it working on G3 machines? As far as I know, 10.4 was the last release for G3s.
- bombcar 3y ago
  Apple is pretty famous for dropping machines before they absolutely have to.
  - xp84 3y ago
    Yup get ready for the Mac Pro that was on sale at full price until a few weeks ago at $7000 to be removed from the compatibility list for whatever comes after Sonoma.
    - bombcar 3y ago
      Lucky someone will make an installer that works for quite awhile until they change their processor again :)
- IntelMiner 3y ago
  Retro computing enthusiast "Action Retro" has demoed Sorbet Leopard on his G3 laptops [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Ponlb4QPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Ponlb4QPY
  - hollandheese 3y ago
    His Pismo has a G4 upgrade card in it. So nope.