Sounds like something went wrong with your installation. I've installed Tiger on dozens of G4 & G5s and all of them felt an noticalbe speed increase. If you just bought Tiger call Apple you've 90 days of support. -----Original Message----- >From: Jerry Bunn <jbunn at woh.rr.com> >Sent: Apr 19, 2006 7:56 AM >To: "A place to discuss Apple's G5 computers." <g5 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> >Subject: [G5] speed > >Just upgraded my dual 2.5 to OS X Tiger 10.4.3 and I'm disappointed >in the speed drop in almost everything. I get the spinning beach >ball more than ever. My computer's remaining Hard Drive space >initially dropped about 80 GB when I first booted under Tiger, then >dropped another 40 GB the second time I booted, but now is back up 70 >GB to the good. Crazy! > >Is this typical for an upgrade to Tiger??? I kinda wish I had stayed >with Panther. > >Jerry > > >_______________________________________________ >G5 mailing list >G5 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g5 > >Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984