Wolfram There are strong rumours that 10.6 will be Intel only, the current developer preview requires Intel.
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, Wolfram Gottfried wrote: --- 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
