[G4] Re: Leopard OS on a 450 Mac -Question--G4Ever

[John Baltutis]

On 11/13/07, John Niven <senseamp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2007, at 1:19 AM, John Baltutis wrote:
>> On 11/10/07, "O'Brien" <obgraph at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 09:22:05 -0500 (EST), arricam at 295.ca wrote:
>>>> Lots of talk about Leopard OS. Are there any hidden surprises?
>>>
>>> As I understand, Leopard won't run well on less than a 1gHz G4.
>>> There's been a LOT of discussion on the OSX group:
>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macosx-support/
>>>
>>> You understand wrongly, then. It runs faster than 10.4.10 on my
>>> unsupported G4, 450 MP, 1.5 GB RAM
>
> I have a three DP 450's at home. It would be nice to
> still run the latest OS if there is no downside. What
> makes you say that your machine is faster with Leopard?
> Gut feel or did you run some bench marks? I must say
> that I got the impression that 10.4 was faster than 10.3,
> but many people said 10.3 was the one to stick at for G4's.

Sorry for the delay. I'm on digest and just got this.

I beta-tested the cat, so ran it for over a year on the G4 and my mate's 1GHz
17" flat-panel iMac. That 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. No other benchmarks, but I've beta-tested Panther, Tiger, and Leopard, so
my experience is what I base my conclusion on.