Power PC with a linux distribution and R
Adam, I (or rather the kids and the wife) got two iMinis and one iBook with G4. They all run 10.5.4 happily on their 1GB of RAM... greetings, el
On 12 Sep 2008, at 23:43 , Adam D. I. Kramer wrote:
To Stephen's credit, Apple will no longer support PowerPC chips (such as his G4) in the next operating system (Snow Leopard), so some sort of switchover will be necessary in order to maintain SOME sort of state-of-the-art software packaging for PPC-based Mac users in the near future. Also, it is important to note that Leopard on a G4 iBook would probably run disgustingly (read: unusably) slow unless the memory is upgraded: It shipped with 256MB of RAM (and that money would be better saved for a new computer), and Leopard (on my Macbook Pro) is currently using about 700MB for the operating system. Switching to linux and X-windows allows for an old system to be, in a word, functional.