I upgraded and installed Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 on 2 PowerMac G4s in my house. They are both below the system requirements; one is 400 Mhz and the other is dual 450 Mhz. I was able to install it via a hack called Leopard assist. Leopard Assist tricks the installer into thinking it is a 933Mhz machine and reverts back to normal after installation. You HAVE to run Leopard Assist from an Admin account.
I have to say, Leopard is a lot snappier and more responsive on both the PowerMac G4s than Tiger for some reason. Leopard on these PowerMac G4s work well! The key is to max out the ram with 2 GB and install a decent GPU; both these machines have Nvidia G4MX 64mb GPU- which is ok-- Rage 128 won't work or run in Leopard.
Leopard Assist is available here @ Macupdate.com:
https://www.macupdate.com/download/26562/la233.zip
All you have to do is provide the Mac OSX Leopard Install DVD and run Leopard Assist and that is it.
With Leopard, we get the benefit of having Safari 5.06-- remember to install the clicktoflash safari extenstion, and set the html 5 player setting resolution to 240p and this will allow a 400Mhz PowerMac G4 to play youtube videos smoothly! Ofcourse flash player has to be installed too but the clicktoflash will default the video playback to 240p html 5 video.
Leopard has breathed new life into these G4s!
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