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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-performs both 10.4 and 10.5 in benchmarks


Wait... how'd you get it working on G3 machines? As far as I know, 10.4 was the last release for G3s.


Retro computing enthusiast "Action Retro" has demoed Sorbet Leopard on his G3 laptops [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Ponlb4QPY


His Pismo has a G4 upgrade card in it. So nope.


Apple is pretty famous for dropping machines before they absolutely have to.


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.


Lucky someone will make an installer that works for quite awhile until they change their processor again :)




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