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Old August 24th, 2009, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by icemanjc View Post
I too checked this upgrade option out thoroughly and just as I had figured, under System Requirement Mac OS 10.5 Leopard is listed.

What I don't understand is supposedly Snow Leopard was supposed to clear up a lot of the clutter in 10.5 that is caused by now useless PowerPC stuff. How do they plan to do this if they are just installing on top of something that is already cluttered...?
Well, the SL installation will probably do a clean up of older files and replace them with newer files, all the while removing excess PPC code. I gather that it would still have the necessary files but would check for an existing Leopard installation.
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