The Impossible Cat - How to install the OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard PowerPC Beta on G4 Macs

[@isaiahheitzman]

I remember back when I was 8 years old, I had an eMac, and I tried and tired to get Snow Leopard installed. Little did I know that Snow Leopard was architecturally incompatible with PPC (I thought Apple just locked it out so I would buy a new mac). This video would have saved me so much time back then.

[@ChrisNova777]

lol epic FAIL

[@HoloScope]

lol me too

[@ProduktReview]

Same story with me and a iMac g5. I then hackintoshed a EEE PC with snow leopard at the age of 11-12.

[@novatiberium]

Can't wait for a post-Big Sur version of macOS where the final Intel version is just... a beta.

[@WalnutSpice]

Great. Just what I needed, an excuse to pull out my PowerMac G5

[@stephencawker1565]

I have one, on the table!..lmao..I have to try this!

[@MacintoshMen]

Thanks for showing us this! I tried it on my Powerbook G4 15" and it worked great! (Video will come out soon)

[@ActionRetro]

Awesome, looking forward to it!

[@kenm2709]

It made no sense to drop powerpc support back then it was too soon, it doesn't surprise me that original intent was for snow leopard to be universal.

[@ActionRetro]

Totally agree. Especially since they were even still selling the Powerbook G4 12 inch at the same time as Intel Macs because it was so popular. Also, I love your pork links, but don't you suppose more people would buy your link porks if your pork link snacks were dishwasher safe?

[@ActionRetro]

@@RWL2012 Hah, you should Google Ken M

[@andy5178]

@@ActionRetro Imho, Snow Leopard for PPC didn't make much sense, which is why Apple ultimately scrapped it. I haven't had the chance to play around with the PPC SL beta yet, but I believe there are hardly any differences compared to Leopard, for a PPC system (except for the black menus), especially performance-wise. That's because most of SL's innovations were under-the-hood optimisations or Intel-related features. For example, I remember Grand Central Dispatch, of which no PowerPC machines, except for multi-core G5s could've taken advantage of (and even then, one could argue it would be pointless as the PPC architecture had been abandoned). Same goes for OpenCL and so on. And if you add that SL increased the RAM requirements to 1 GB, well... I'd say about 80%, if not more, of the PPC Macs didn't meet the requirements (any Mac, even the last Power Mac G5, shipped with 512 MB RAM at most, and not many paid to raise that to 1 or 2 GB). The impossible cat would've been an upgrade which offered little to nothing new for a few select machines, that is fully-upgraded G4 and G5 machines. That's probably the main reason, even more than boosting Intel Macs sales.

[@KarlozAlcala]

actually this is a dejavu it happens again droping intel for new M1 chip, i just returned my new M1 mac mini because all my software is not compatible with the sillicon i want until 2008 to move from PPC to Intel i guess i will wait another 3 years to move to new M1 chip. i cant afford the computer and pay for all the software allover again

[@a4e69636b]

I had no idea Mac OS 10.6 could run on PowerPC. Thank you for this video.

[@peterlaurie6596]

Just installed Impossible Cat on my G5 Dual 2gb with 8gb of ram and love it runs great on youtube, Thanks.

[@mikeclark7834]

Great job! Glad somebody finally got around to making a video about that thread. You should do a video on how to install the 10A96 server build, which lets you use wifi. There wasn’t ever a pre-made dmg for that version created, so you have to do it manually.

[@ActionRetro]

Thank you! I tried that one a few times on my other powerbook but kept getting kernel panics. I'll have to try again on the 12 inch!

[@stephencawker1565]

wow!..I need to know all this...thanks

[@pkf4124]

All my Power PC Macs send their love to you for this, especially my last run G5

[@sayresyDevino]

Just installed on my G4 powerPC and I now got Snow Leopard OSX 10.6. I have also joined MR (donated) and will be installing old software -- JOY Thanks for the help in your great tutorial.

[@marcr.1652]

Just finished the installation on my G4 17 1,67 HiRes Powerbook. The process was smooth and quick . The biggest problem I see is that the graphic chip is not properly supported and therefore the UI is sluggish and feels slow. But generally a interesting project. Maybe there will be a way to make it even better than it is already.

[@ActionRetro]

Awesome man! It's really cool how active the Macrumors thread still is in working on this. There's an even newer version of the beta that is pretty close to booting.

[@DravenUnix]

ever get the graphics working?

[@michaeloellnisch4348]

My Power Mac G4 MDD with Radeon 9600 Pro 256M also has problems with graphics. I installed ATI Display driver 4.5.7.

[@UnshornKeyboardist]

Now we need a way to install 10.7, 10.8, then eventually get Mojave on a PPC Mac! Lol

[@ActionRetro]

😂 Easy just pry off the G4 and solder in an Intel!

[@Windows7Pro2009]

Action Retro don’t forget the chipset as well 😆

[@mirf6283]

He needs more ram

[@ayoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

Don’t forget the fans for some poor ram

[@zenospeed_345]

@@ActionRetro wait would that actually work

[@Moondream417]

Would this work on the ultimate beige G4 desktop? That would be sicc!

[@MaxOakland]

I’d really like to know more about this beta. Like, why was PowerPC support removed?

[@onkelebert787]

Will try this tonight on my G5 Dual 2.0.

[@ActionRetro]

Nice! Let me know if it works!

[@onkelebert787]

Well, the first attempt with Mac OS X 10.4.11 failed. Also I could not activate the image with Tiger. So I took my 10.5 DVD and recover the image from there. As for the system: You can clearly see that it is a beta. In some views in the Finder, the text for the pictograms is missing and the speed is rather slow. In any case, no comparison to Tiger on the same G5 or 10.6.8 on my Mac Pro 3.1, but maybe there's someone who still tinkers with it.

[@ActionRetro]

Thanks for the follow up. It's definitely not suitable for a daily driver, but cool to see.

[@MrMatte1983]

That's fantastic! I'm messing around with an old PowerMac G4 AGP and will give this a go!

[@ActionRetro]

Awesome, let me know how you make out!

[@MrMatte1983]

@@ActionRetro will do! So far I have working OS 9.2 and Tiger partitions. Really enjoying your videos! And love your cats!

[@kaiyoshi2243]

These videos make me want to pull out my old macs and get them going again. Hardest part is finding an install image that works on any mac. I have several install CD/DVD's but I run into problems with. "This disc only works on the Mac Mini G4, not the Tower G4 or the G4 laptop etc etc. Or only works on the G4 cube" Whyyyyy!!! They're all G4's! But this... 10.6 on a powerPC? Didn't think it was possible. Guess that's the beta part. Thanks for all the videos. I'm currently spam watching all of them.

[@Krzrrazrrokr]

Apple should've totally released snow leopard for the powerpc products. Originally they planned for 10.5 leopard to work on g3 macs but they dropped support because they just couldn't handle it. Apple should've done something similar with snow leopard. They should've made the minimum requirement be like a 1 ghz g4 processor and have support for all g5 processors.

[@ActionRetro]

Totally agree

[@onkelebert787]

I don't see it that way. Sure, it would have been great for the fans (and I'm talking about fans, not normal or professional users), but what software that requires 10.6 would still run reasonably well on a G4? For example, even on my G5, garageband only runs acceptable if the partition is on a striped raid volume or SSD. Also, you only have a maximum of 2 gigabytes of Ram on a G4. A G5 can handle more memory and has at least SATA-1, but it consumes a lot of power and gets very hot. Here the end was simply reached, which you could already see from the fact that the variants from 2.5 GHz on required water cooling and the 3 GHz variant never appeared. Please do not misunderstand. I also like my old G3, G4 and G5 Macs, but for once Apple did everything right here.

[@Krzrrazrrokr]

Onkel Ebert the way I'm looking at it is whenever snow leopard came out in 2009 you had g4 macs from 2006 that couldn't run the latest operating system. So whoever owned a 3 year old emac or ibook or even a powermac g5 already had an out of date computer at that point.

[@onkelebert787]

@@Krzrrazrrokr That is correct and also bitter, but the G4 was already hopelessly outdated in 2006. Well, it was even outdatet in 2003. Or why did Apple "have to" release versions with dual CPU's? Certainly not because a G4 was fast enough. The G4 was only continued later because the G5 was not suitable for use in a laptop or Mac mini.

[@aiureazaw403]

i install on my PowerMac G4 with ati rage 128Pro and is very laggy😢 i mean is maby driver problem or something even in the wallpapers i can not see clar image is pixel pixel on i go online this problem desapair everything is good just in system is like thst any idea?

[@SFGiantsBweezy]

What is the advantage of installing 10.6 over 10.5.8? Is there newer software that you can install that require 10.6 or newer that you couldn't install on 10.5.8 Leopard?

[@megatronskneecap]

Ummmm.... I would say stability but as this is a beta version of SL I dunno... Possibly a slight preformance increase. I'd just stick with the lastest version of leopard tbh.

[@brokenelectronics3665]

This is really cool! I had known for quite awhile that there were early PPC betas of Snow Lep. but I had not heard of one surfacing. Great find! I'm going to have to try it, of course, but I would also be interested in knowing if you find any advantages/disadvantages compared to just running Leopard.

[@ActionRetro]

Let me know how you make out! Honestly this is mostly about cool factor for me, though some others have said they've gotten more recent versions of XCode running on this than possible on Leopard, which could lead to some interesting software compiling perhaps. In my subjective experience, it feels a bit faster than Leopard does too, and I haven't yet optimized it even!

[@brokenelectronics3665]

I’m downloading it now! I’m going to try putting on a partition on my PowerMac G5 this weekend. It’s going to be on a spinning hard drive, so it won’t be a direct comparison with Leopard, but, as you say, some things need to be done just because they are cool!

[@ActionRetro]

Very cool. Some people have had issues with graphics cards in G5s causing kernel panics in the Snow Leopard beta, thought others have reported success. That MacRumors thread linked above has some discussion on that if you run into trouble.

[@brokenelectronics3665]

Action Retro That’s why I will install it on a blank hard drive. If it doesn’t work, no harm done.

[@brokenelectronics3665]

Action Retro Yeah, I am getting kernel panics. I tried it also on the iMac G5, and the aluminum PowerBook G4. All of them kernel panicked. I’m not sure where to go with it.

[@Motscoud]

I'd love to install this on my eMac when I'm back at my parent's place in December.

[@santospoland]

Can you upload it to the Macintosh Garden please.

[@ActionRetro]

Done! macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-106-snow-leopard-powerpc-beta-10a190

[@antoniolalmeida2366]

We’re are you from Alex Santos, that looks like a Spanish/ Portuguese name, I’m pt

[@stivixhemo7801]

Me looking at my IBook G4 IBook G4: Do not even think about it !

[@Jay-uu5lu]

I have an emac hopefully this will give it some new use

[@3niknicholson]

dunno about the kool faktor, I loved SL on Intel, I thought it ran very well, and had a lean and klean feel. I've got friends who stuck with SL on Intel for a long time, considering the later stuff to be over-gimmicky and over-restrictive. Ok... let's clear out that old Leo partition, erase that destination, offer appropriate incantations to the kp goddess...nah...goddess wasn't having it, option-booted the X without a name, on my tibook 1GHz DVI, got the grey apple and the grey rotating gear thing, then it stopped rotating, no kp, just dead, tried it twice...so it goes..back to trying to making void better than tiger...

[@awesomeferret]

Could you please upload it to Archive as well? It costs money to download from your links on Mac Repository due to the filesize.

[@radcheckinski6300]

FINALLY. Subbed just cuz of this.

[@donjames5761]

thank you. for teaching me this sir.

[@shiningprince]

What is the difference between this Beta 10.6 and the Leopard Sorbet 10.5.9?

[@san..]

I need to install snow leopord on a leopord imac. Can I use these links?

[@maxtechnics3260]

How do you get such a dock. It looks like it's form the sides, but it's themed like that on the bottom. It looks slick!

[@dzvxo]

this guide has instructions ppcarchive.dyniform.net/tuning-a-g4-for-leopard.html

[@browncoatstudios]

Hi there. I just picked up a iMac G5 PPC with 10.5.8 freshly installed and working great and found your vid to do the upgrade. Everything worked like a charm as far as the process and when I rebooted, I have lost my wireless Mac keyboard and don't have an option for WiFi any longer and it seems like the fans are working a little harder. Any suggestions? Thanks!

[@MainAvel]

Other than the 'wtf' factor, what other reason would there be for this? What software supports 10.6 but not 10.5.8?

[@ActionRetro]

In my opinion, it's 100% about the cool factor. However, a few people have said in the various threads that a later version of Xcode is available, and that the later version of Safari that's included makes a difference. To my eye, it does seem to run a bit smoother than Leopard too. If I can get WiFi working, I might keep 10.6 as my couch-browsing laptop.

[@RedHairdo]

WindowShade X 5.0.7, if that counts. There may be more. Also, libre software targeting Snow Leo+ can now be recompiled from source as PPC binaries and, perhaps, work on this. So I say it's 90~95% for the cool factor.

[@ActionRetro]

Oh, good point about compiling open source software!

[@SyphistPrime]

I wonder if people can hack together a few fixes for the missing parts on this to make it worth while for running open source software on. It would be a cool way to get a bit more milage out of these machines

[@ShearWater509]

So I'm trying this on my TiBook G4 1GHz, but I only have one partition on my hard drive. So, I booted from a Tiger DVD that I have and opened Disk Utility. I inserted a flash drive into the USB port with the .dmg file on it and mounted it - that all went just fine. Now I'm on the step where it's copying blocks. It just says Copying... at the bottom right, and it's been that way for 3 hours. No progress bar or anything displaying. Should I just let it be for awhile? I realize it may take awhile since it's USB 1.1, but I was just wondering how long I should let it sit before giving up and trying a different way...maybe with an external SCSI hard drive hosting the .dmg file or something like that.

[@davidhepworth3956]

You need to donate to the site to download files more than 1GB like this one? Is there any site to download it for free?

[@SyphistPrime]

Maybe check archive.org? If it's not there I'll try to remember when I get my first paycheck at the job I'm starting soon. Honestly this kind of thing shouldn't be behind a paywall. Faster download speeds, sure, but not just downloading the file.

[@oliversakic5907]

Can I install and boot into snow leopard using a external usb harddrive?

[@ActionRetro]

Yep, I have done this on my Powerbook G4.

[@oliversakic5907]

Action Retro I thought that you needed a firewire drive to do that, so thanks for telling me that it works! :) Btw, Will this also work with a USB flashdrive?

[@katheads]

Is it possible to install programs that were created for 10.6+ intel macs? I'm guessing no, but worth a shot

[@ActionRetro]

Unfortunately no, nothing made for Intel can work on PowerPC Macs

[@teamdynamite1923]

what is the upside of using snow leopard instead of leopard?

[@nicoletti2000]

how about trying installing old os on a new model Mac ?

[@yes7528]

Installing Snow Leopard on a mid-2012 MacBook Pro, which the earliest supported OS is Lion.

[@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs]

Have You Got The Wifi Working On You Mac Since You Installed 10.6 Beta SnowLeopard if So Let Me Know How

[@ActionRetro]

Unfortunately no. The earlier version of the beta does have WiFi though, but I wasn't able to get that to boot (kernel panic for me every time). In the Macrumors thread, there's an even newer version of the beta that they have pretty close to booting... I'm hoping that maybe that one will solve it!

[@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs]

@@ActionRetro I asked on the forum and some said. Need to replace whole I080211 Family.kext with all inside kext plug-ins. In 10.6 I080211 Family.kext is builded as intel only binaries. Im Not Sure How To Do That

[@Starcat128]

it wont lete me download it from the mac reposatory it ways i have to donate to download a File that large do you have a google Drive Link for the disk inage

[@sheppardtribe]

Awesome guide. Always helps to have a video for the visually oriented. Working on my PowerMac G5 1.6GHz with ATI Radeon 9600 Pro AGP. Just need to sort wireless.

[@ActionRetro]

Thank you! Once we can figure out wireless, I'm going to use 10.6 as my couch-browsing computer OS. What do you think about the speed of 10.6 vs 10.5 on your machine?

[@sheppardtribe]

Action Retro Have 10.4 with Classic on HDD which is responsive. Had 10.5 on same drive noticeably slower so shifted it to SSD.. 10.6 on HDD partition. Will let you know overall feel. To install ATI driver to see if resolves blocky wallpaper

[@ajvdg2]

I tried it, it works! Problem is, I cant get hardware acceleration working. Installed it on my 1.25 ghz Powermac g4 mdd, gpu is a Radeon 9000. Do you have any gpu recommendations ? I've read somewhere that the FX 5200 would work, but that it has some weird glitches every now and then.

[@ActionRetro]

Awesome man! Unfortunately I was under the impression that acceleration wasn't working at all, due to some part of it being compiled only for Intel in these builds. I'll have to check out about the FX 5200, I hadn't seen that.

[@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs]

Ok I Will Try This On My G4 Cube I Will Do A Video On This

[@aundregrande]

What is your CPU clockspeed on the cube?

[@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs]

@@aundregrande 600Mhz

[@ActionRetro]

Oh I'm super excited to see that! Can't wait!

[@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs]

@@aundregrande 600Mhz

[@QuarterLifeJam]

So...I have to donate to the site in order to download it?

[@ActionRetro]

I put it on Macintosh Garden too: macintoshgarden.org/apps/mac-os-106-snow-leopard-powerpc-beta-10a190

[@pheeleeppo]

No way man, i’m shocked by this news

[@zenospeed_345]

I can't partition the Hard Drive. The error I'm receiving is a Disk Error of GPT support. And Wi-Fi doesn't work either. I don't know what to do there either

[@JoshuaDominic]

Let’s hope Apple doesn’t kill off Intel Macs with their silicon transition as fast as they did with PowerPC Macs.

[@LidLockTV]

lol

[@MaxOakland]

yeah that was way too fast

[@ficheye00]

Very interesting, but I have Snow Leopard installed on an outboard drive. Just start up from that. Or put in on an SDHX card. That works too.

[@danstone_0001]

Was the original target of this image for the apple xServe G5, can this run on a iBook G4, or xServe G5

[@WelcometoVideoCity]

Could you let us know if there isn't performance boost or loss with this over 10.4 and 10.5? Many machine see a drop when moving into higher/newer OS, however Snow leopard was so beautiful and optimized I am hoping it will be the best choice for a G4. Thoughts?

[@mattjacobs8308]

10.6 Ran poorly on my G5, graphical issues as well.

[@davidhepworth3956]

How did you partition your hard drive? I’m running Tiger and it won’t let me?

[@SeanMalseed]

You have to have Leopard or later to resize partitions, in Tiger you'd have to wipe the drive to make a new partition unfortunately. Do you have a FireWire drive? You could install on that.

[@davidhepworth3956]

I want to keep it on Tiger. I’ll try it on my iMac G4 because that’s already on Leopard 👍🏻

[@kingeling]

Does anyone know how it compares to Sorbet Leopard in terms of performance?

[@pawanshukla7243]

Bro how to create a disk partition like impossible cat in this video. I am on mac os x tiger . Plz help me Powerbook g4

[@tfgward7889]

I wonder how well this will run on a 1.8Ghz G5 with 8GB or RAM and a 9600 Pro

[@ShintekBeats]

I'm going to try it out. Only have 4gb ram atm tho 😁

[@WelcometoVideoCity]

My mind is completely blown.

[@onigvd77]

trying to work out which is better, this or sorbet leopard for G4 or G5 Macs?

[@themyntt7896]

Can OSX Lion run on a Core Duo or Core Solo? the dev previews in the case

[@giovannibenedetto9937]

There was a 10.7 beta that supports core duo(not sure about solo). It was called Roaring Core

[@mrmcguru163]

Its not working on my powermac g5 11, 2 it gives you need to power off error

[@l.2019]

Same

[@Arjuna93]

That’s really awesome. What about third-party software? Do Leopard PPC apps install with no issues?

[@Arjuna93]

Answering to myself: mostly yes, with few exceptions. Works nicely for development though.

[@zebular]

Screw it, gonna try it on my G3 500mhz lol

[@linuxization4205]

Did it work?

[@zebular]

@@linuxization4205 it did not lol

[@urbatecte7737]

Hi there ! I've just succesfully install it on my Mac Mini G4 (upgraded with 1G Ram and 120G SSD). I share my way as I read some people get issue: I've first installed Tiger with 4 CD from Macgarden.Just aftger the 1st CD loads, I've run the disk utilisty to partition my SSD. One partitiikon for Tiger installation, and other for Snow Leopard. Then I go through all the Tioger installation step, reboot etc... Now on Tiger, I've just follow this great video ! Thanks a lot. But... I fail to see any USB drive folder (I see the drive in the system preferences but not in Finder). Do I need to enable something somewhere ?

[@Stupdeas]

how much MB does this require. i don't wanna create a 2nd partition for nothing.

[@GuillermoPaulman]

Are there any benefits copared to sticking to the latest version of 10.5.?

[@justinhinson6504]

Now they won't let you download it without a $10 donation... Guess i'll have to wait for now. Will this work on a 800MHZ G4 Quicksilver?

[@rev_tun3207]

My iBook g4 was supported till 10.6 5 why is he running a beta version

[@robcat1674]

Hi, thank you for your tutorial, I could install SL on my Mac Pro G4, but I can't change de language. Is it possible ? I live in France and I'm italian, I would put italian language in my computer. I tried in system preferences, then "international" but nothing happen (I rebooted too). Thanks for your answer, regards. Roberto

[@maurocau56]

Didin't find here, but anyone knows if the lack of wi-fi was solved?

[@ethanconnor-hodges]

Were you able to get the wifi to work?

[@renegade6550]

Very nice video! I´ll give this a try on my PB 17" G4 with 1,5GHz. I have maxed out the ram to 2GB so it should fly on this big boy ;-) Greetings

[@ActionRetro]

Thank you! Aw man, 17 inch Powerbooks are my favorite.

[@frankwoods9997]

Hi, I installed on a USB flash drive, and the SL DMG would not appear in ‘start up disk’ Preferences where volumes appear. This is despite following what you demonstrated,

[@ChristopherCharman]

Most PowerPC Macs can’t boot from USB unless you do it from open firmware. You need to boot from a DVD, Firewire drive or a separate partition to set this up manually. If you’re attempting to simply use the .dmg image then you need to block copy it to an internal drive/partition using disk utility and be sure to select ‘Erase Destination’. Please visit our thread on MacRumors for up to date information.

[@schoolkiddosd505]

Can you install snow leopard on a old iMac?

[@deathrex6199]

How big is the partition that you used for putting Snow Leopard?

[@tenuunganzorig4315]

Can i do this on a intel based mac

[@bamdadkhan]

do you have QE/CI on this? because i have the same powerbook6,8 and there's no graphics acceleration : (

[@ActionRetro]

I do not :( I don't believe anyone has gotten that working yet unfortunately

[@curtismurray250]

To get WiFi working, upgrading the WiFi card may work?

[@oliversakic5907]

Amazing! :D

[@guts2048]

How do you create the partition?

[@adamjg4]

How well does MacOS 10.6 PPC work well on old G3/G4/G5s?

[@maneerin81959]

I have been trying to install 10.6 on my iMac G4 from 10.5.8, but have not succeed. Even though I was able to bring it up from Tiger to 10.5.8. I have bid the DVD installer 10.5 from eBay and will try again. I am also going to upgrade my HDD to SSD and install more ram as my iMac at the moment has 1.25 GB DDR Ram to 2 GB and my iMac is with 1 Ghz. I wonder if it's too old or less power to install 1.6?. Anyone could help to explain it to me. I'm new to Mac. But I have found the iMac G4 in my partner's waldrobe. It was borken for almost 10 years and I just fixed till it works again. Thank you. 118595108_615644435821599_3333348338445498058_n.jpg

[@imacg5658]

The iMac G5 20 inch graphics don’t work

[@ActionRetro]

Ah lame :(

[@imacg5658]

Wait, can you put graphics/wifi KEXTs from Leopard's S/L/E or L/E into Snow Leopard's? The Kexts are very similar between the two. I should try that!

[@miguelangelrincontalero3698]

Hola, me funciono perfecto, solo que paso lo mismo que a ti, el wi fi no funciona, has logrado resolverlo?, plis traslate to english, thank´s

[@ActionRetro]

No wifi :(

[@BetrayedVenus00]

Do you need to scan the dmg

[@pawanshukla7243]

Bro how to create a partition like impossible cat . On powebook g4 . I am on mac os x tiger.

[@ActionRetro]

If you're trying to resize your existing partitions to make a new partition, you need at least Leopard to be able to do that.

[@MaxMax-ej9rz]

How do install the WiFi After the install of the snow leopard 10.6 Can you let me know please Thanks

[@ChristopherCharman]

Details for the current Wifi fix along with all other current information is available on our thread on MacRumors. The first post is a Wiki containing all the information you need.

[@zenospeed_345]

Can someone help me on getting WiFi to work?

[@mats33667]

same

[@aguiristante]

I have a G5. Why is this better than leopard?

[@albertonunes3234]

Does anyone know where in the macrumors forum they fixed the wifi issues? If not, does anyone know how to fix it?

[@ActionRetro]

As far as I could tell, I don't think they ever really fixed it yet unfortunately. I think people were using third party WiFi cards and USB adapters to get around the built in ones that don't work in the beta.

[@ChristopherCharman]

There is a fix that works for some models, like the iBook G4. We’re still working on fixes but the WikiPost on the first page of the thread has been reorganised for those wishing to follow along and help us with testing.

[@d3adman404]

WOW this is insane

[@marioalbertoveleztovar]

Hola amigo espero mecontestes rápido tenco una de esas i nomás latengo arunpbada tu tines todavía el sistema ese k unas pero gratis k melopases porfa

[@methanoid]

I wonder why the Macrumours guys are using beta 190 when beta 222 is out.. surely later is better? archive.org/details/10a222 DL links also

[@ActionRetro]

As far as I understand, they are working on that version as well but have not been successful in getting it to fully boot on PPC. With each successive beta, more and more drivers are intel-only. For example, WiFi works on the first beta, but not the second one even though both now boot on PPC.

[@pajamalama2027]

software update?

[@ActionRetro]

Unfortunately no software update

[@JonnyInfinite]

4:13 parp

[@IntendantMall]

nope, graphics not working (QE/CI)

[@KarlozAlcala]

actually this is a dejavu it happens again dropping intel for new M1 chip, i just returned my new M1 mac mini because all my software is not compatible with the silicon i wait until several years until 2008 to move from PPC to Intel i guess i will wait another 3 years to move to new M1 chip. i cant afford the computer and pay for all the software allover again

[@ChrisNova777]

how does this work regarding updates ie: 10.6.X ?? does it have exFAT support??

[@bojan.canadian]

Mine says: "You can't Install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on this computer. To install Mac OS X Snow Leopard,you need an Intel based Mac" My processor is: "1GHz PowerPC G4" What should I do? Please HELP!

[@themacintoshnerd]

Watch the video

[@Titancarreon]

mine is showing it to be OSX lion! it is not fair! i paid for it ! Snow leopard is much smoother and uses less ram. please send the right link!

[@marioalbertoveleztovar]

Q Melo pudieras paras el Ai dónde dises es de paga mela pudrias pasar gratis si podrás es pero mecontestes