Thanks dave; its ilife 08 btw. On 08/10/2008, David Poehlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found that my version of gb that I got with my Macbook running tiger was > more accessible under leopard than under tiger. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ben mustill-rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by > theblind" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:19 AM > Subject: Re: tiger or leopard? > > > 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) > > > > >
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