I feel like playing with some old software so I thought I would give 10.2 a try.
I was just wondering, would it work on my Powerbook, or is it too new?
Specs are below

According to Mactracker, your Mac originally shipped with OS 10.3, so your answer is likely no.

Oh well, there goes that plan!
Thanks for the help

If you wipe the drive it will. You could install 10.0 on a powermac g5 the day before the mac pro was introduced. Heck, you may be able to install 10.0 on a macbook pro. Just wipe the drive on the install disk.

How would it be possible to install os 10.0 on an intel based mac like the macbook pro ajb01? I thought that 10.4.4 or 10.4.5 was the first "real" release of mac os x that was universal? The first development release was as i can recall 10.4.1. 10.0 would be ppc only.

In theory, any version of OS X works on an Intel Mac, although the applications might not work and Rosetta probably doesn't exist.
I have tried installing it, but I believe the disk isn't booting (it's only a copy)

im pretty certain that PPC builds of OS X would not work on an intel mac. Rosetta is for applications (and application frameworks) only - the core OS cannot run emulated. Tiger 10.4.4 is the earliest release you can run on an intel mac (unless you count the beta 10.4.1-10.4.3 releases).

actually, thats not strictly true - i guess you could run any Mac OS release thru PearPC or (going back even further) an 680x0 emulation tool.

There were no commercial versions, but Apple said themselves, OS X had been built to run on both architectures.

I'm not sure how this cropped up though, I was asking about running it on a Powerbook

yes it could work on an intel mac watch wwdc 2005


i dont think you can run 10.2 on it natively but you might be able to run 10.2 on mac-on-mac