[iBook] Performance improvements with Tiger.

[Angus Wallace]

Howdy,

I was running 10.3.9 on my ibook 12" 800, 640mb RAM when I upgraded  
to Tiger.

talking about speed is difficult. I think that the graphics in tiger  
are noticeably better than Panther - they've included substantial  
modifications to the graphics rendering engine, which allows greater  
offloading of graphics computations from the CPU to the GPU (video  
card) - this frees the CPU for other tasks. However, I have noticed  
that I get the beachball a bit more than I did with Panther. I think  
this is because there are some optimisations yet to be released. I've  
just upgraded to 10.4.1 (20 mins ago - without problems), and this  
may have yielded a speed increase, but I can't say yet.

Having said all this, Tiger is a *big* advance on Panther, IMO. The  
pervasive implementation of Spotlight is fantastic, and dashboard is  
very cool. I think it's a worthwhile upgrade. My philosophy is - if  
you're gonna upgrade sometime, do it now and get the benefits  
sooner! ;-)


HTH,
-Angus

On 17/05/2005, at 9:42 AM, Risha Moonshadow wrote:

> I've seen lots of comments about better performance
> with Tiger,  what I'm wondering is what each of you
> were running before.  Older versions of the OS or are
> you seeing these improvements in moving from Panther
> to Tiger?  I have had my ibook for about 6 months now,
> and don't plan on rushing out and upgrading the OS
> right away, but I am curious as to whether I can
> expect much of difference between Panther and Tiger on
> a fairly current system.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Risha
>
>
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