I put a new 7200RPM drive in my Pismo and at a rough guess I would say it made it 10-15% faster. On one of the LEM articles someone put Tiger and Leopard on the same G4 Powerbook ( 1.4Ghz from memory ) and using benchmarking tests found that Leopard slowed it down by only 4% - hardly noticeable in my opinion.
Stewie > Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 06:39:17 -0800 > Subject: Re: Leopard or Tiger? > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > The drive already has Tiger on it (and I've already run 'disable Tiger > features' and stripped out the unnecessary languages, G3 support, etc > for optimisation), so I may stick with that. > > By the way, I put a 5400 in there rather than looking for a 7200 > because some people online seemed to be of the opinion that the 7200 > drives might run a bit hot in these 'books and may also to cause > battery life to take a hit. At least it's not the original slower > drive... > > As for newer OSes generally being slower, maybe it's just me, but with > OSX, I've generally found 10.4 to be a lot faster on my machines than > 10.3, so that's pretty much why I was asking the question, since > although this has been true for me in the past, I wasn't so sure 10.5 > would give any speed gain (due to the use of Core), despite this 'book > being within the acceptable specs to do an install. > > And I'm just now realising I probably should've posted this in the G4 > 'books forum. Clicked the wrong button in my favourites bar! > > I don't imagine putting 10.5 on my Digital Audio 733 G4 would be such > a great idea, eh, even though it's got maxed RAM and a 7200 rpm drive? > Guess it also depends on video card and that's a whole other ball of > wax (I don't have the stock card installed: it's a GeForce 2mx or 4mx, > I think, whatever the stock card was in the dual 867MHz Quicksilvers). > > Andy > > On Dec 7, 9:12 am, Richard Gerome <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think you would be better off with Tiger??? Based on my experience in > > the past when you go up to the next OS it tends to slow it down... I would > > hang on to the Leopard disc just in case you start having trouble with > > Tiger but I don't see this anytime soon... I would max out the memory > > though if you are looking for more speed and performance!!! > > > > -----Original Message----- > > >From: mythmaker18 <[email protected]> > > >Sent: Dec 7, 2009 8:41 AM > > >To: G-Group <[email protected]> > > >Subject: Leopard or Tiger? > > > > >I recently purchased a 17" 1.33GHz Powerbook G4 (Aluminum) and was > > >wondering which would be the best (as far as speed/responsiveness) OS > > >to install on this Mac: 10.4 or 10.5? I have install discs for both. > > > > >I will be moving over a 5400RPM drive and will be installing between > > >1.5 and 2GB of RAM. > > > > >Speed is more important to me than simply being more "current". Thanks > > >for your opinions. > > > > >Andy > > > > >-- > > >You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > > >those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > > >Macs. > > >The list FAQ is athttp://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtmland our > > >netiquette guide is athttp://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > > >To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > >For more options, visit this group > > >athttp://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list _________________________________________________________________ Use Messenger in your Hotmail inbox Find out how http://windowslive.ninemsn.com.au/hotmail/article/823454/web-im-for-hotmail-is-here -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
