Life without Dual Intel

Hello Rob here. I've found myself in a bit of a Mac mobius here in that I'd like to upgrade from OS X 10.4.11 to Leopard X 10.5 and beyond but my machine is running dual Power Pc G5 (cpu) and every comment at the Mac says 'if your G5 is running Intel- ! Dual Intel I guess. Anyway of 'moving' forward with this or do I need to buy another machine? Can I load this one with Intel processors?
Thanks to whom ever responds to this catch 22 question.
Robby Hardy

There is no practical way to have the PowerPC Mac run Intel processors;
however you could upgrade the OS X 10.4.11 to 10.5.8 and use that awhile.
The integrated nature of the rest of the computer would make it impractical
to upgrade the processors since there is more going on beyond just those.
However, there may be more to your question that needs spelling out.
When do you see a connection between a Power Mac G5 (PPC) and
the mention of Intel processors? Except in 'mistaken identity' cases?
There are two technologies, behind PPC-Based Mac and Intel-based Mac.
And the 'univeral' installers allow a similar OS X version to run on them; as
there are technologies which allow some older apps to run on Intel-macs.
So, if something is prompting you with *"if your G5 is running Intel"* then
there is something very illogical going on, in the root of the discussion...
That's like saying: +if your Turbo diesel VW is running a gasoline Subaru flat 4.+
Anyway, have fun... and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Good luck & happy computing!

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