On Dec 7, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Stewie de Young wrote: > Besides try it for a while and if you don't like it, wipe the HD and > reinstall Tiger.
Yes, this is exactly what I've had to do for a friend whose aluminum PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz was "too slow" with Photoshop under Leopard 10.5.8 and "very useable" under Tiger 10.4.11. Since I was doing the work for free, I argued strenuously against the downgrade, but when I saw the difference in performance myself, it led to me investigating this using the xBench and Geekbench archives, as well as doing my own comparisons on my G5 desktop. I'm convinced that Leopard is enough slower to notice the difference, but in my case, I've chosen to stick with Leopard on my G5 for now, mostly because of the difficulty of downgrading since I've installed many "Leopard only" apps that would also need downgrading. I can't see much progress in OS X between 10.4.11 and 10.6.2. Spaces & Time Machine are the two biggies, both of which I can live without. Leopard is the ONLY "universal" version of OS X, and it seems both bloated and slow(er) for PPC Macs. You can strip out the Intel code bloat using Monolingual, but that doesn't help the speed any. -- 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
