On Nov 10, 2008, at 2:23 AM, Digital Bill wrote: > > I routinely share files between the two machines, as well as my wife's > new iMac, which runs Leopard. And I like a lot of what I've seen in > Leopard, especially the simplicity of Time Machine, to say nothing of > several apps and utilities I regularly use being upgraded to Leopard- > only status, Plus the allure of being as up-to-date as possible, > especially given that the current Leopard will probably be the last > version of OSX that will run on my PPC machine.
Except for the wife thing, I pretty much do the same share data thing between my QS 2002, PCI Graphics (Yikes!) and a PPC 8500 Sonnet G4/450 Xpostfacto'd with Panther (soon to Tiger). > > So, given all that setup, have I waited long enough? Is Leopard stable > enough and reliable enough and speedy enough for my MDD Dual G4? When I put Leopard on my QS 2002 Dual 1GHz, I also found I "needed" a Core Image video card ... so I invested in an ATI Radeon 9800Pro. A bit of an overkill for what I do, but other software (Sibelius music notation) and others, are moving into the Leopard arena so I wanted to move on with them. DVD Player also had Deinterlacing set as default, and I thought my nVidia Geforce 4MX wasn't fast enough for DVD Player ... software core image was being used ... but the Deinterlacing was the culprit that ate up my Dual 1GHz. I had already moved to the ATI Radeon 9800Pro by the time I discovered the Deinterlacing thing ... Anyway ... > The G4 dual-boots, so any need for OS9 -- which is minimal these days > -- can be met by booting directly into it. Or by accessing it on the > Panther machine I have: a Power Computing clone with G4 card running > XPostFacto. Oh ... dual boot sort of goes out the window with the ATI Radeon 9800Pro ... unless I missed something? Any comments here? 9800Pro isn't supported under OS 9.2? Now I've discovered, as others have, Time Machine is buggy (search other threads). I moved to Leopard mainly for Time Machine. With CCC 3.1.2 newly released, the eye candy nature of Time Machine has grown less sweet. Nevertheless, as a staunch member of the Apple community, I've enjoyed the thrill of moving into Leopard land only a few months ago ... and even bought a Tiger CD set, hacked it for my PCI Graphics, and am having fun with that cat, too. Just need to be spending my time at the piano and easel, instead of enjoying the system programmer nature of installing new OS Xs ... although it was/is puzzle-solving-fun ... Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: http://www.myspace.com/moonstoneartstudio --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
