---------- Original message ---------- Subject: Re: G4 and OS 10.5 Date: Thursday, 03. May 2012 From: Stephen Conrad <[email protected]> To: [email protected] > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Mac User #330250 <[email protected]>wrote: > > The slowdown is most noticeable already in Tiger with things like > > Spotlight indexing in the background (which gladly can be disabled) and > > Dashboard and TimeMachine and maybe other services that lay hard work on > > a slow processor and/or use up valuable system memory. > > - > Yet people say Time Machine is a good thing :)
Yes, on a fast machine, where it is actually usable. > If you disable all that, you should be happy. If you can live with a different backup software, where you decide when to actually perform the backup (preferrably when you're not working on the machine, and when you do _not_ require all the performance it's got for your task) then you will be happier having Time Machine disabled: on a *slow* machine. Time Machine is nice: you can forget about backups, because it will do them for you all the time. This is very fortunate on a fast machine, but it will but the brakes on on a slow machine. > > For Leopard, I think you really *have to* have a good graphics card that > > features both, QE and CI. Otherwise it will always feel like you have the > > brakes on… > > -> Good thing My MDD with a Dell monitor (both NEC monitors died) > supports both > *ATI Radeon 9000 Pro:* > Core Image: Software Core Image is done in software, i.e. the processor has to do it. It should read "Supported" to be in hardware. For Radeon, as far as I remember, up to and including the 9200: CI is *not* supported. In other words, you will require at least a Radeon 9600 to have CI support. > Quartz Extreme: Supported Yes, that's good. Cheers, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 -- 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
