[ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

[Tim Jones]

I installed SuSE's PPC version on my White G4 and got 1280 x 1024, so it's not the video card, it's the lock that Apple put on it to make you buy a PowerBook (or Mac Book Pro).

Tim

On Feb 22, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> Bob,
> 
> yep... I had to buy a macbook pro because of the better video card. I was
> doing some video stuff and the white macbook couldn't run the software.
> 
> I wish I could keep on Linux forever but Mac OS X still a very good
> system... I am just afraid of Apple.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:
> 
>> If they had put a nice video card into it, they would have then had to put
>> it in a nice metal case and call it a Macbook Pro. :-)
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 22, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Andre-
>>>> 
>>>> Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 2:37:50 PM, you wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I think I will migrate directly to Mountain Lion because I am felling
>>>>> adventurous.
>>>> 
>>>> You might try installing it into a vm to try it out first.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> oh I don't dream of doing that in my main machine... I will try it first
>> on
>>> my spare macbook white.
>>> 
>>> oops... I think it won't run there due to the crap video card that apple
>>> put onto that thing.
>>> 
>>> =/
>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> 
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