[X4U] Installing Leopard on an older Mac

Spoolman Nancy nanc at spoolman.com
Sun Dec 16 08:55:11 PST 2007


What I am curious about is how much RAM you have in the G4/450. I  
wouldn't mind testing it to see. We have tons of G4/450 Towers in our  
district and would be interesting to see speeds. I thought Tiger was  
slow on them.


>> As I posted last month,  nope, if you're wondering about the  
>> differences on a
>> nonsupported Mac. I beta-tested the cat, so ran it for over a year  
>> on the G4,
>> 450 MP and my mate's 1GHz 17" flat-panel iMac. That experience and  
>> reports from
>> other beta-testers indicated every incremental build brought some  
>> speed
>> increase in one area or another. I still run 10.4.11 on a daily  
>> basis and think
>> stuff loads faster, Safari's snappier, etc. on Leopard. No other  
>> benchmarks,
>> but I also beta-tested Panther and Tiger, so my experience is what  
>> I base my
>> conclusion on.

Nanc


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