No sooner had Steve Jobs resigned than the process of his canonisation began. Genius, visionary, even revolutionary were some of the epithets used to describe the man who took Apple from the brink to the world's most valuable company.

Yet, once the hyperbole is stripped away, it may be that he was merely the man who made us fall in love with pretty gadgets, and made Apple shareholders immensely rich in the process.

Jobs made computing sexy and packaged music players, phones and portable screens to make them the must-have item for millions. But he is guilty, among other things, of bequeathing to us a worldwide cult of technological onanism from which we are unlikely to recover any time soon.

The newest story of OS X (10.5 Leopard) WILL run, but it’s growing to be a suffocating one. The Apple.Com specs to run Leopard say at LEAST a G4 867MHz processor or safer, and at LEAST 512MB RAM, but I’d strongly make attractive at least 1GB RAM to run Leopard on a G4.

You might be richer reconsider off flourishing with OS X 10.4 Tiger. It’s cheaper and designed to run on G4’s without facer (it’s designed for G3, G4, or G5 processors) and only needs a nadir of 256MB RAM (although more is raise).

I get all my Mac machinery (like RAM upgrades) at OWC ( http://eshop.macsales.com/ ) but you can get Tiger at Amazon, Apple.Com, or a shire computer trust in.