[G4] Panther or Tiger?

[R Michael Vogt]

I just setup a 20" iMac  Intel  I could not tell the any difference  
when it was running rosetta from the I apps  it was very fast  . I  
now used two of them  and I was needing to buy anther mac to replace  
my G4 AGP I would get one


Michael & Sharon  Vogt <><

On Mar 7, 2006, at 5:24 PM, Al Poulin wrote:

> On Mar 7, 2006, at 4:54 PM, g4- 
> request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:
>
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:28:46 +1100
>> From: Tony Johansen <tjoh7019 at bigpond.net.au>
>> Subject: Re: [G4] Panther or Tiger?
>
>> Anne, your original question regarded Tiger or Panther. Intel is  
>> another
>> matter. Be aware that Intel will not run any OS 9 programs at all.  
>> OS X on a
>> G4 or G5 has 'Classic' mode, not so Intel Macs. Initial reports  
>> seem to
>> indicate that OS X non Intel (non 'universal') will run on Intel  
>> but despite
>> Steve Jobs claims that they work normally, it appears they are  
>> very slow as
>> with Windows programs in Virtual PC.
>
> The latest Macworld magazine has a review of the Intel iMac.  The  
> speed hit for running non-universal applications, using Rosetta  
> software translation, depends on what older machine is being  
> compared, what older machine you are leaving behind.
>
> Three functions tested in MP3 Encode, Photoshop Suite, and MS Word  
> Scroll ran in roughly one half to one third the time on the iMac  
> G5/2.1GHz and in about two thirds to three quarters the time in the  
> eMac G4/1.42GHz.  But the iMac Dual Core machines ran the tests in  
> two thirds to three quarters the time required in the iMac  
> G4/700MHz, the slowest model with the half-basketball base.
>
> So I'm guessing that the iMac Dual Core using Rosetta for old OS X  
> applications is roughly equivalent to the performance of the single  
> CPU Quicksilver 2002 models at 800 and 933MHz.
>
> Al Poulin
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