sorry im not quite sure what u are referring to about PPC vs Intel...
in spring/summer/fall 2006 most apps were migrated + made compatible with Intel Mac (Universal Binaries) now, from that time, up untill leopard being phased out, (final update being released) around August 2009 (around when snow leopard was released?) thats *3* years of browser development time... mid2006-mid2009
i wasnt really commenting on anything to do with PPC vs INTEL but more so on the
usability of whatever browsers i could find that are able to run on Leopard,
tbh i expected it to be more "still usable" then it is.. im not sure exactly why; im not a developer for Chrome or Firefox... (but hey! that would be a fun job) im not sure what exact changes in the browser rendering model or client side scripting have gone on.. but apparently these old versions of browsers are pretty outdated and ill equipped to the point where downloading small driver files from random sites becomes a total impossibility (and nuisance) .. i guess things just move fast in the browser world these days?
re: why a leopard hackintosh?
i have some hardware audio interface that supports Leopard.
obviously the goal of creating the hackintosh Leopard box was/is more of an experiment
to test with other hardware that i own.. firewire + PCI interfaces
with direct support for OSX Leopard... albeit i picked a strange board to do it with
but it still scores about the same as my imac 2008 machine on processor benchmark
now that i put a Core 2 EXTREME cpu in it
my little intel-leopard hackintosh is dead right now for the moment though
i killed the PSU leaving it on all night without sleep enabled
woke up and it was off and wont turn on
RIP!
i guess my Nvidia 6600GT killed the poor little 300w power supply i had in there
which sucks because i could have used that vintage AOPEN PSU in a vintage pentium 133 because it had the older AT motherboard connections