Reply #309: Strangely enough, our now-quite-old G4/500 runs modern software.

[Tesha]

Strangely enough, our now-quite-old G4/500 runs modern software.
(I'm not sure exactly when we purchased it, but it was introduced
on 2000.02.16 and bought shortly after that so it's almost eight
years old now.) To date, we've had no problems running *ANY* of
the latest versions of any of our applications.

I haven't yet tried putting Mac OS X Leopard on it; officially,
it's too slow to be supported but I'm expecting that to work also,
just like our Wall Street continued to work way past the officially-
supported versions of the system software.

We're rev'ving up to replace the G4/500 (probably with a
big-screen iMac, otherwise with another mini-tower) but it's
given us many years of good service and will probably retire
to a quiet life of being a file server.

Tesha