Hay and thanks for the responce. Given the cheapness of ram these days I was probably going to upgrade it to 2gb anyway. I really couldn't care less about the new leopard features excluding any vo inhancements that there may be. I've actually played drums on a g3 500 with no lag before running panther so I think that 2gb will be alright, its just that i'm reluctant to slow this machine down when there'll be little difference in what I want to do with it.
On 08/10/2008, Jacob Schmude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ben > You will be able to run Leopard, but it won't be as fast as Tiger. > Definitely get the ram upgraded to at least 1gb, preferably 2gb. 512mb > is too little to run Leopard effectively, even on newer Intel Macs-- > and if you want to run Garage Band in Leopard you'll want at least 2gb > to run it well. I successfully ran Leopard with garage band in my > iBook G4 1.33ghz with 1.5gb of ram and, while it ran a bit slow in > certain respects, I still found the tradeoff to be worth it. Your > preferences may vary, but the combination of Leopard's features > (including Voiceover improvements) allowed me to put up with a bit of > slowness. What version of Garage band do you have, by the way? If it's > 2008 you'll be fine, but a lot of Tiger systems run earlier versions. > In particular, 2005 is common (and was the last accessible version > before 2008) and as far as I know it has issues in Leopard. > hth > > > On Oct 8, 2008, at 03:08, ben mustill-rose wrote: > >> Hay. >> >> I have a emac of the following spec; ram can be upgraded if needs be: >> g4 1.42 >> 512mb ddr333 >> 80gb (5400 rpm) >> I'm currently running tiger. >> I'm mainly using this for garage band so I won't be using any of the >> new features in leopard, but i'm wondering if vo works better in >> leopard than the version bundled with tiger. >> Despite the fact that vo probably works better, i'm worried that >> leopard will slow the machine down and make garageband less >> responcive. >> >> If anyone could tell me if there have been any vo improovments in >> leopard and or how leopard will run on the above spec then i'd be very >> greatfull. >> > > > -- Kind regards, BEN. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction)
