Mac OS X Leopard on Mac Mini with 256MB RAM?

[alra111]

Greetings,

I would like to know if any of you have been successful in installing Leopard on a Mac Mini (PowerPC) with 256MB of RAM (i.e. no updates have been performed on it, it is as it came from the factory).

Secondly, if I could throw in another question, I have a wired printer with no Bluetooth or anything of the sort. It is a USB printer. I'm wondering if there are any adapters out there that would make the printer work wirelessly with my iMac.

Thank you for reading this and thank you if you reply,
Alra111

 

[fryke]

Why would you want Leopard on a machine with only 256 MB RAM? I see no reason for it.

 

[Giaguara]

Hi Alra, I would not even dream about it with anything less than 1 GB. 512 is bare minimum, but you don't really want to use it with less than 1 GB.
Even 10.4 will .. sort of run with 256 MB but you don't want to use it with less than 512 MB.
Fortunately RAM isn't expensive like it used to be.

 

[Mikuro]

I agree. Panther runs reasonably well with 256MB, but you'll want at least 512 with Tiger or Leopard. I upgraded my Mac Mini (same as yours) to 1GB shortly after I upgraded to Tiger. It runs very nicely now, and I plan to install Leopard sooner or later. In the short time I used Tiger with only 256MB, it was a pain — much worse the Panther was.

I have no idea about the printer question, sorry.