--- On Thu, 10/23/08, Kris Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Kris Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Tiger vs Leopard on PPC G4 PowerBook
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 5:30 PM
> 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.
>
It seems to run OK on G5 PPC hardware, but the little bit of playing with it on
G4 hardware I have
done to date makes it seem like usable but not optimum. I expect that as soon
as they think the
market will bear it, they will make OS X itself Intel only and expect us all to
buy new computers.
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