[G4] 10.5 to upgrade or not to upgrade

[John Baltutis]

On 1/5/09, Eric Smith <eric-s-smith at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> You might want to look through the information on this page for
> reports of Leopard on slower G4 systems:
>
> http://lowendmac.com/osx/leopard/unsupported.html
>
> As the page states, you may also want to consider upgrading your
> graphics card for Leopard, as well as the CPU.
>
> I also have a G4 Sawtooth, and before installing Leopard I upgraded
> the CPU with this:
>
> http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technology/SG410002M/
>
> Leopard runs fine for me with the 1.0 GHz CPU. Sometimes I wish
> I had chosen the 1.8 GHz version, but I was trying to avoid spending
> the extra money for it. I also upgraded my graphics card from the
> original ATI Rage 128 to a Radeon 9800 Pro.

Four years ago, my G4 Gigabit's ATI Rage 128 gave out and I replaced it with a
GeForce4 MX card. Subsequently, I've been running Leopard on it (using a hack
to bypass the 867 MHz or faster processor requirement, and it runs faster than
Tiger. I have not upgraded any other of its original hardware.