On Nov 29, 2010, at 6:19 AM, Geke wrote: > You already found out, but anyway: > Apple has been replacing emulation code by native code up to Tiger, > and that’s the fastest OS X of all. In later versions, additions have > started to make things slower again.
Not even remotely true. Significant speed improvements were made in 10.5 and 10.6. For example, Spotlight is actually useful in 10.5. Also, I don't understand what you mean 'emulation of native code' until 10.4 ALL Macs were PowerPC macs, no emulation was needed. Only Intel-based systems running 10.4 used much emulation. Also Apple made a lot of 'changes under the hood' between 10.4 and 10.5 which make things much faster for supported hardware, at the cost of needing more fast memory, hence the somewhat odd 867MHz CPU requirement (which translated to Macs with a 133MHz bus or faster). Apple's system requirements for 10.5 are spot on. If your machine is supported in 10.5 your machine is better in 10.5, especially with applications that take advantage of the new system libraries. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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
