PPCG4 hardware not supported

Question

I've got a PPCG4 FW800 1.25GHz DP & 1.25GB RAM OSX 10.4.6 and ProKit 3.1 framework. When I try to launch Aperture 1.0 it tells me that my hardware isn't supported and quits.
The specs state that the app supports "1.25GHz or faster PowerPC G4 processor"
Any ideas appreciated?
PPC G4 FW800 1.25GHz DP 1.25GB RAM ATI Radeon 9000 Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

Answer 1

Correct, the machine is not adequate. IMO Apple's use of the term "unsupported by Aperture" is unfortunate, because the semantic implication is that Aperture does not "support" a particular box. As a consequence dozens of folks have posted wanting to know when Aperture will be modified to "support" their boxes; as if the engineers just need to write some code to facilitate each hardware configuration (like printer drivers; or enablers that fit the OS to specific boxes).
IMO it would be more clear if Apple just identified boxes like yours (and my tower) as "this hardware is not powerful enough to run Aperture."
Although some speed improvements on the software side (both OS and app versions) can usually be made, the basic issue is that it takes strong hardware to drive heavy graphics applications. E.g. the best 2005 Powerbooks were the first time Photoshop was really usable on any Powerbook, and that just "adequate."
Aperture (designed to handle batches of hundreds of RAW image files) requires strong hardware including the CPU, RAM, hard drives, etc. (and especially the GPU, as noted). In the long term, app designers always take advantage of the stronger power of newer boxes, so we should plan - like Photoshop users have learned through 9 versions - on buying the high end of Macs at any given point in time if we want to have adequate throughput power to drive future versions of Aperture, Photoshop, etc.
Note that my expectation is that by 2007-2008 heavy graphics apps will be wanting more RAM and strong GPUs. Buyers of boxes limited to 2 GB max RAM and/or lesser graphics should expect performance to be limited accordingly. E.g. Photoshop CS2 boxes already perform best when configured with 6-8 GB RAM.
-Allen Wicks
Early 2005 1.67 GB G4 PB, Radeon 9700, 128 MB VRAM, 1.5 GB RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   D2x, DP G4