At 1:17 AM +0100 10/17/2008, Simon Royal wrote: >Curiousity got the better of me tonight and I went and installed >Leopard on a 400mhz G4 with 640MB of RAM. I did it before with a >PowerBook G4 400mhz Titanium with 1GB of RAM. It ran ok, but even >Finder was sluggish and Cover Flow was painful. I did it before by >modifying the Leopard installer files to remove the requirements. >This time I used LeopardAssist and it works very well and is simple. >It ran a lot better on the PowerMac than on the PowerBook. Finder >was snappy and responsive, even Cover Flow worked fine.
Nice! I recently got a PM G4 500DP. Been contemplating putting Leopard on it. I think now I shall do! :) >It only has 640MB of RAM, upping it would help a lot. Do you know that for sure? Have you observed in Activity Monitor that your free and inactive pools are very tiny (*both* being less than 10MB), and that the paging rates are going nutz? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml 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/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
