Mac OS X Sorbet Leopard - Installation & Demo

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Today we're checking out Sorbet Leopard: an unofficial version of Mac OS X that aims to bring improved performance to G4 and G5-based Macs.

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"By the Fireplace", "Walk Through the Park" and "Brighton Lights" from the YouTube Audio Library

Outro Music: Silent Partner - Bet On It

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[megatronskneecap]

The G4 was such a cool but weird era of Apple (2002-2006). I really liked the clean white vibe Jony Ive was going for but the screen ratios were really really weird. So much so that I remember some websites used to actually redirect you to a Macbook-specific website just so it would work with screen ratios compared to PC monitors. Sorbet Leopard brought life back into an OG clamshell that was running Jaguar so props.

[synchro]

This is awesome. Who would have guessed that vintage computing would be this cool. Thanks for posting this.

[stevenpike]

I really liked the Skeuomorphism style. Especially the notification bars w/ that blue and white barber shop pattern and the "gel" look.

[Match]

I'd love to see a video bench marking and comparing the performance of Sorbet Leopard to regular leopard, and how the different modifications like the new theme and disabling indexing or shadows affect performance.

[TheOriginalCollectorA]

10.5.9 really does help out on PowerPC machines, I’m still using stock Leopard on my PowerBook and it works well. I’m sure though that it would be even faster with this! Also didn’t know that a project existed for Tiger as well. Tiger is already a pretty solid OS, so anything to improve on it will make it that much better!

[ruffy]

I already knew about the project, but seeing Michael introducing me is incredibly interesting and satisfying.

[Karcade]

I've never been into apple but I have been fascinated with the PPC stuff since I love 2000s tech and wondered about toying with the apple side of things. especially since it might be handy to have a machine available for random testing when I need. I'm always for things like this that improve performance on older machines :)

[NathanDarkson]

As a Flash animator, I am upset that you called Adobe Flash Player "Filezilla" :((

Jokes aside, I do get the confusion since both logos look the same far away. Other than that, it's amazing to know that there's still a community out there that holds on to the old Macs of yesterdecades.

[barcigian]

This G4 12" was my very first laptop ever. The only thing I regret the most was selling it to buy a Windows PC (I HAD to do that due to software limitations I had back in the day).... Nice to see that is people still keeping it alive, cuz was a great machine!

[rickkarrer]

You're totally using my custom mock box art for the thumbnail. That's awesome, glad you liked it!

[davidmolin]

Actually really cool video. Planning on getting some of the features for 10.5.8 but will probably not install the full os as I prefer the current ui over the high sierra one(also had a really bad time with high sierra with my old 2010 MacBook Pro)

[wertywerrtyson]

I recently got a Snow Leopard disc for a 2009 mac. Still a very beautiful OS.

[ryderrepairs]

Sweet Vid Michael, i was actually just looking at sorbet for my 1.46 Ghz iBook :)

[tonybardalen]

Let's go thrifting! No wait... wrong channel. The music made me doubt if I had opened a hidden tab somewhere. Nice vid! 😊 Cool that you can breathe some life into old Macs!

[somewhereintheheavens]

love the mac os stuff, would love to see more!

[boogiehasfun]

Linode has sponsored you more than i can count. i guess they like you :D

[anidnmeno]

NO WAY! I just installed Sorbet Lepoard on my powerbook G4 yesterday!

[kbhasi]

6:01 🤣🤣🤣
You accidentally saying "High Leopard" reminds me of a photo someone made of "macOS High Mojave" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[mr_pretzel_]

i never thought that michael would do apple software overviews or demos

[jdryyz]

Sorbet looks really snappy for running on an iBook G4. Might really be nice on an old G5 I have. If I can only solve my power supply problem.