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Authored by: macavenger on Mon, Oct 29 2007 at 9:19AM PDT

Intel macs will boot quite happily from disks formated with the APM partitioning scheme- even on 10.5. You just can't install onto one of these disks from an intel mac. This fact come in handy if you have a mix of computers, as 10.5 is now completely universal- just install onto an external drive formated with the APM from a PPC box, and you've got a boot disk that can boot both intel and PPC macs.

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