Will it work on a slower G4?

Macs being as durable as they are, my G4 PowerBook 550 MHz is still going strong.
However, the minimum requirements list a processor speed of 800-900 MHz.
My question is, will it work? If the only difference is that it runs a little slowly, no problem.
Or is there some technical reason why it wouldn't work?
Any experience/theories?
Thanks everyone.

No it won't.
And actually the minimum processor is 867 Mhz.
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