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As I took a look at Office 2008's system requirements I saw that G3's were no longer allowed in the club. In fact, it has the same system requirements as Apple's iWork.

 

Usually, Microsoft is all about legacy support, and I still wonder why I need a G4 or better to RUN A SPREADSHEET.

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i was sort of hoping they wouldn't alow ppc to run leopard... but a lot of people wouldn't have liked that...

Doesn't matter that they allowed it; all the review say Leopard's terribly slow on anything less than a G5. The "minimum requirements" of a 867MHz/512MB G4 system are about as ridiculous as Vista's "minimum" of 800MHz/512MB.

Usually, Microsoft is all about legacy support, and I still wonder why I need a G4 or better to RUN A SPREADSHEET.
I used to run a load of incompatible programs on a .332 mhz PC, (Or something like that) 128 mgb ram and 8 Gig HD (used Fruity loops 4, Cool Edit 2, Photoshop) on windows 95, it was way out of range for system requirements, but it did install, and run really good. I think it's all a lieHow come this:does not show up in safari?
Sadly, you're right. 20 years from now we'll have quantum computing, and there will still be Apple users clinging to their still-sucky G4 notebooks screaming about how much potential PPC had and how it was prematurely killed.

 

The PPC platform does have a lot of potential, because of how RISC processors work (why do you think Intel is starting to make their chips do more at lower clock speeds???). The G4, however much I love it, is a pretty dead beast. There is a huge difference between a processor platform (PPC) and a specific processor (the G4).

 

PS--I miss AppleWorks.

You've heard about COI right (Classic on Intel)? Its basically a minimal OS 9.0.4 install + Mac ROM + SheepShaver all bundled into one 40MB archive file and it allows you to run most OS 9 apps, minus games. I tried it on my hackintosh and it works great, bootup is lightning fast and it integrates well with OS X.

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