On 15 Dec 2005, at 01:53, Ian Moffatt wrote:
On 15 Dec 2005, at 1:16 am, Mark Benson wrote:
OS X 10.4 is really the only version that suffers from that. 10.3
is much leaner,and as a result faster.
Sorry Mark, but Tiger is definitely faster than Panther on my
machines (Lime iMac DV and a Pismo, both 400MHz 512MB)
On the surface Tiger seems faster, stuff like window drawing and
general system functions are marginally faster, but as soon as I
started piling on the apps all that extra eye candy stuff in 10.4 was
eating precious RAM and CPU cycles. I suppose it depends what you do,
I use my B&W for heavy CPU stuff because it has a larger CPU cache
(1MB L2 versus 256k in the iMac) and a faster hard disk. The iMac
(running Tiger with Dashboard disabled) is newer and faster but has a
15" screen so it's useless for anything that requires big real-
estate. Swings and roundabouts I guess.
I do have a G3/500 iBook running 10.4.3 and it seems happy enough,
I'm surprised how fast it actually runs considering it has a Rage128
graphics chip and only 256MB RAM.
I also find generally Tiger tends to do more pageouts ( writes from
RAM to the swap space on the hard disk) on the iMac. I never used to
get any with 10.3.x in over a month of continuous operations, so
Tiger is using more RAM somewhere.
Just my 2p worth.
That said let's worry about getting our man on Panther
What's the current going price? I have a copy here up for grabs
£30-40.
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