Kris Leopard certainly seemed to have been built with Intel in mind, but it runs fine on PowerPC Macs.
A mate of mine has an 867Mhz PowerBook G4, the minimum for Leopard and it runs a dream on it. It should run more than fine on a 1.67Ghz. Hell, I've run it on a 400Mhz Titanium PowerBook G4 and yes that dragged a little, but then you expect it to. Whatever you run it on, if you had Tiger on it previously you will notice a difference. My Intel iMac originally came with Tiger and it smoked along, I put Leopard on it and upped it from 1GB to 2GB RAM and it still smoked, but Leopard does require a lot of RAM to get the best out of it. Simon --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - Mac news, reviews, guides, upgrades, hacks and more... - http://www.nmug.org.uk - webmaster for Norwich Mac User Group - The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. On Oct 23 2008, Kris Tilford wrote: I upgraded a friend's aluminum PowerBook 1.67 GHz from Tiger to Leopard, a 100% clean install from scratch. He immediately complained about the slowness of Leopard. I convinced him to spring the bucks for the full 2GB RAM (he only had 512MB before). After installing the 2GB RAM he reported no change in speed, which surprised me. He now wants me to downgrade him back to Tiger, which I'm going to be doing soon. In the interim, I decided to check some XBench archive results for his exact PowerBook model. It was a shocker. Most Leopard 10.5 scored around 40, while most Tiger scored around 55. I saw a 38 for Leopard against a 58 for Tiger for the same specifications as his. I can understand why he wants to downgrade now. I'm starting to have serious doubts about Leopard on PPC Macs. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
