Am I the only one peeved at the hardware requirements for leopard?

I've got a G3 with a 650Mhz G4 in it with 1 gig of ram, and am a bit dismayed that it looks like I'll have to break the DMCA to install leopard. While my computer might be pretty pokey, I don't create digital media content or do anything on it that is too CPU intensive. I hope that apple includes some way to bypass their hardware requirements. While i realize that they put in these requirements to ensure that their OS looks creamy smooth on what ever it's installed on, I find that it is memory size, graphics card and disk access speed, more than CPU speed that dictates weather or not an OS can run satisfactorily on any given system. I should probably be posting this in the G4 section but I see from the sigs. in here that there are a lot of G4s hiding in blue boxes.
Any thoughts?

True indeed. I have three flavors of Mac OS on my computer, 8.6 9.2.2 and 10.4.10 and they all still have "teh snappy", (though i must admit 8.6 runs like its on fire). Sure photoshop drags a bit in 10.4 but the OS still runs great. The irony is that each new version of OSX seemed to run faster than the previous. I was hoping that with 10.5 and a MacHacked nVidia 5200 video card, I could tease my $windlelowes buddies with a piece of vintage hardware that puts their Vasta bloat-boxes to shame. Ah well I guess there's always Linux©.

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