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Yes. However, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) requires an 867 Mhz G4 processor. Some of the older eMacs do not have a processor this fast, and so cannot run Leopard without third-party workarounds.
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∙ 13y agoMac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) requires a Mac with an Intel processor. The eMac has a PPC G4 processor and so is not able to run 10.6.
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