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DESCRIPTION
While Apple has limited its support for Mac OS X to those machines that originally came with a G3 or G4 processor, it is possible to install Mac OS X on some earlier machines. The unsupported machines that work now are the 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8600, 9500 and 9600, as well the clones that were based on one of these systems (the Umax S900 and J700, and the Power Computing PowerWave and PowerTower Pro). The original processors in these machines will work (with the exception of the 7500, which requires a processor upgrade). G3 or G4 upgrade cards work as well. Other models that use the PCI architecture may be made to work in time.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 4.0:
  • Supports Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)!
  • Runs on Mac OS 9.x or 10.2 through 10.4.
  • Will install Mac OS X 10.2 through 10.4.
  • Works with "New World" machines that Apple dropped support for in 10.4 (such as the original iMac, original iBook, and the Lombard Powerbook).
  • Avoids the mis-application of the 8 GB limit on "Old World" machines by the Mac OS X Installer.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.1 or later.


Developer:Ryan Rempel
Downloads:85,686
  - Version d/l:15,653
Utilities:System
License:Free
Date:05 Sep 2005
Platform:PPC
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    Sep 27 2007

    WOOFER  I'm just wondering/hoping, if this niffty little programme might be updated soon to let users with under 900MHz G4 Macs to install OS X 10.5?

    It seems Apple have limited 10.5 for either Intel users or better than 900MHz G4's

    Fingers x-ed.....  (Version 4.0)

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    Jun 22 2007

    MACTINKER  Hi! XPF was recommended to me by a list mod to help in installing 10.3 on a beige G3 AIO. I have asked Apple and they tell me that 10.2 will install and run on this Mac just fine. I went to the list in question looking for 10.2. But the list mod was very encouraging about the superiority of 10.3 over 10.2, so I tried to dl XPF4.

    I got a page of very strange code, and no actual dl at all. Thought you'd want to know about that.

    Three questions:

    1. Does anyone know what I might have done wrong in the dl process? I clicked the "Download now" button, that's all, and all that appeared to be necessary. Or maybe it can't dl to OS9?

    2. If I can get hold of a set of 10.2 CDs, do I still need XPF? (Apple says no, just fyi, but if *users* have different actual experience, that's helpful to know.)

    3. (Slightly OT) If I could just go altogether with X I wouldn't ask this, but: Does anyone have an opinion whether 10.3 is really so much better than 10.2 that I need to add to the complication of making the switch? It's going to be tight in the first place, as I need to partition the HD so I can have one side w/ OSX and the other w/ OS9, because I actually do use the built-in floppy and zip drives, both unsupported under all versions of X. Can't go get a USB floppy drive, because the AIO does not have USB ports, which are required by 10.3.

    Thanks for your time.   (Version 4.0)

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    Nov 4 2005
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    JUAN CARLOS  hi, this utility is great, i was able to run the cd installation of mac os X 10.2 in my Power Macintosh 8600 but i had a problem, everything was fine running the installation until i had to choose a selection disk for the installation, the program said that "you cannot install MacOs X on this disk. An erlier version of Mac Os X is not installed" can anybody help to solve this problem? what can i do????   (Version 4.0)

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    Oct 9 2005
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    BRANDON  Just installed 10.4 on Lombard 400MHz/320 MB, cannot shutdown cleanly, it hangs on "double kernel panic, I'm hanging here"

    any ideas?

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    I was a very happy user of Xpostfacto on my 9500/g4450 with 10.3  (Version 4.0)

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