XPostFacto

XPostFacto (formerly Unsupported UtilityX) is a freeware utility created by Ryan Rempel that allows Mac OS X to be used on PowerPC-based Mac models that pre-date the G3 processor. It can also be used to install later versions of Mac OS X on machines that Apple has declared unsupported, such as the early iMacs, beige Power Macintosh G3, the PowerBook G3 "Wallstreet" and "Lombard." Once Mac OS X has been installed, XPostFacto also runs under that operating system. On unsupported machines, XPostFacto should be used instead of Apple's "Startup Disk" control panel or system preference pane to select whether the Mac should boot into Mac OS X or an older version.

Online retailer Other World Computing is a major supporter and contributor to XPostFacto. Its fourth major revision added support for installing Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger."

Although versions of XPostFacto were available before the release of Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4, no version was available at the time of the release of Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard", which XPostFacto 4 does not support. XPostFacto is not required to run 10.5 on unsupported Macs as long as they have a G4 processor and AGP graphics, the official requirement of an 867 MHz G4 processor only needs to be bypassed at the time of installation and once installed Leopard will run without problems or requiring XPostFacto. On Macs that have only PCI graphics though, such as the Beige Power Macintosh G3, the version of XPostFacto intended for use with OS X 10.4 needs to be used in order to boot 10.5 successfully (provided that it has been upgraded to a G4 processor as Leopard will not run at all on a G3), although it cannot be used to actually install the operating system as it does not recognize the 10.5 DVD-ROM (another machine would have to be used for the installation and then the hard drive transferred into the unsupported machine). It's unlikely that XPostFacto will be updated to support 10.5 Leopard due to Ryan Rempel's online disappearance after 2005 and due to 10.6 Snow Leopard dropping support for PowerPC processors.