Paranoid Marvin Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32174-102-on-new-ish-powerbook/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 According to Mactracker, your Mac originally shipped with OS 10.3, so your answer is likely no. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32174-102-on-new-ish-powerbook/#findComment-225799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Marvin Posted November 5, 2006 Author Share Posted November 5, 2006 Oh well, there goes that plan! Thanks for the help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32174-102-on-new-ish-powerbook/#findComment-226065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Numberzz Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32174-102-on-new-ish-powerbook/#findComment-226081 Share on other sites More sharing options...
helios Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32174-102-on-new-ish-powerbook/#findComment-226175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Marvin Posted November 11, 2006 Author Share Posted November 11, 2006 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) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32174-102-on-new-ish-powerbook/#findComment-231624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32174-102-on-new-ish-powerbook/#findComment-231642 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Marvin Posted November 11, 2006 Author Share Posted November 11, 2006 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32174-102-on-new-ish-powerbook/#findComment-231645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac-mini Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/32174-102-on-new-ish-powerbook/#findComment-231811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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