huntman21014

Hey OCN, I have an older apple laptop that was just formatted and I am looking at the best OSX version to put on it, it has a 800Mhz processor I believe with 512MB of Ram, it also has a 10GB HDD.

Will Leopard or Snow Leopard work well on it or would it be like putting Vista on a 800Mhz processor?

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Mast3rRoot

well, It looks like you are using either using a Powerbook g4 early 2002, or an ibook 2002-2003 models, if I am correct.

#1 you wont be able to run snow leopard on your laptop because it does not have a 64 bit intel processor.
#2 The requirements for snow leopard requires 1gb ram and 5gb disk space, and with 10 gb, you dont have much room to do much.

Leopard is the same also, your processor is too slow for the requirements. You might be able to do it (im not completely sure) but it will be extremely slow, and yes just like it would be putting vista on the machine.

The latest Mac OS you can put on your machine is Tiger(Mac OSX 10.4). If you can find a disc out there, the OS will run fine on your laptop. It will run smoothly. Though you might want to upgrade that hard drive, because Tiger takes up about 3gb, and personally, I dont think that is enough space to use on a daily basis.

That is my input.
Hope you get everything figured out,
Mast3rRoot

halifax1

Pretty much exactly what is said above.

Tiger would be your best bet.

huntman21014

Alright so Tiger is my best bet, this is my first Apple so when I buy a Tiger DVD what type of COA or Product Key would I need?

Also, can you explain to me the main differences between Tiger and Leopard?

Honestly I don't know much about it as it was given to me in its present condition so I may get it working with a slightly bigger HDD and then let my Niece use it as she is currently without a laptop for school.

Thanks again guys, rep+

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halifax1

You don't need a product key. All you need is the Tiger disk.

Only OS X Server installations need a product key.

Leopard was a huge upgrade compared to Tiger. Leopard came around when the switch to Intel CPUs happened. It's far more advanced than Tiger, and has far better compatibility with new software and hardware. Tiger will do fine on the old Powerbook, but it will be nowhere near as great as if it were a Macbook capable of running Leopard.

huntman21014

Thanks guys, bought a Tiger disk from one of my old teachers!

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reberto

All you need is an Intel CPU to run SL, the first ones Apple used (the Core Duos, not Core 2) were 32bit only and they are fully supported

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Ladiesman101

hmmm
i think it would run perfect on it,but have u taken in account that Linux will work perfekt on that machine as well??
linux is designed to run from a processor of 300mhz and 16MB RAM
so just an idea
good luck

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