[geeks] Replacement MacBook question

Michael Parson mparson at bl.org
Sun Sep 7 15:35:52 CDT 2008


On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Lionel Peterson wrote:

>> On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> My wife's powerbook (867 MHz PowerPC with a fresh, Apple replaced
>>> battery and a new keyboard) is showing it's age. She was unable to
>>> book our daughter's birthday party at Chuck E. CHeese's because her
>>> browser was too old (Safari for the PowerPC has been capped, AFAIK).
>>
>> I'm running 10.5.4 on both my Dual G5 tower and my MacBook, both have
>> Safari 3.1.2 (5525.20.1).
>
> I don't think early G4 Macbooks support anything above OS X 10.4.

Actually, CPU wise (not sure about RAM), you've got the minimums for
10.5.

> I'm sorry - hers is an iBook, not a Macbook - my bad, sorry for any
> confusion.

I wasn't confused, I was just pointing out that my G5 (PowerPC), could
run the same browser as the newer stuff.

But yes, I guess Apple isn't updating Safari for 10.4 users any more.

Camino and Firefox should still be viable options though.  Maybe Opera?

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org



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