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.
