I've tried everything, including the following:. It has installed it, and I can boot it up on my Mac Pro, but the actual Power Mac still won't boot up by itself - it still shows the folder and question mark. I have a retail disc of Leopard, and I connected my Mac Pro via firewire to install it to the Power mac. Ever since then all I get is the picture of a folder with a question mark.

I ended up using these support pages and somehow wiped the hard drive in Terminal.

I contacted the person I bought the computer from and they had no idea what it was. When the machine booted up, it asked for a password. of course, it could all be simply a Tiger/Leopard issue, given the OS differences.I recently bought a second hand powermac G5, and it had a fresh install of os Tiger. I understand the reasons - I simply regret that the PPC line could not have carried on. In some ways, it is a shame that Apple had to move on to the Intel chips. It all lacks the amazing fluid smoothness of the G5/Tiger that so impressed me when I first looked at buying one (and still does impress me!).Īll of this leaves me thinking that Apple's older G5 architecture was a really good thing. On my MBP/Leopard, the icons of the Dock noticeably 'jerk' from one size to another as they increase and decrease. On my G5/Tiger, the icons expand and contract with a fluid grace as I run the mouse pointer along the Dock. What is worse, I find the MBP's performance in some things to be far more 'jerky' than the G5's. Clearly there are significant architecture differences between these machines, but everything seems a little slower on the MBP. Both are at the most current releases of their respective OS. My G5 runs Tiger while my MBP runs Leopard. Of course, there is also the OS difference. This has not been the case, at least in all things. Given that as a general rule, a G5 GHz and a C2D GHz are roughly the same, and given the nearly insignificant GHz rating differential, I rather expected the MBP to either mildly outperform the older G5 or at least run at par with it. Just a quick observation I have made, now that I have both an older PowerMac G5, with a dual 2.3 GHz PPC processor, and a new MBP with a Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz Intel processor.

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