[X4U] Installing Leopard on an older Mac

[Christopher Collins]

As a tech in the PC world, one of the basic things I know is that if  
you want an older machine to speed up, throw RAM at it and put in a  
bigger (translates to faster) hard disk!

This translates to Macs (both PPC and Intel) fine.

We have a couple of old G4/400 machines that we bought before the full  
change to Macs, and it is amazing the difference you get when you put  
1GB in an older machine.

And I'm not talking about going crazy with the hard disk either. I  
pulled out a 10GB that was in it, and just threw in a 7200rpm 40GB HDD  
I had lying around.

After playing and rebuilding it, I gave it away to someone who is  
happily using it for web, email and office stuff.

I never got around to installing Leopard on it, but I know with  
10.4.10 and ubuntu 7.04, it just flew.

YMMV!

cjc



On 17/12/2007, at 3:55 AM, Spoolman Nancy wrote:

> 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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