Re: Best OS X?

2011-03-30 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I'd put 10.5.8 on it. I just set up a G4 iBook 1GHZ with Leopard and it ran great. -Jonas -- 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

Re: Best OS X?

2011-03-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 30, 2011, at 1:22 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: I'd put 10.5.8 on it. I just set up a G4 iBook 1GHZ with Leopard and it ran great. With 10.4.11 it would run great 20-30% faster. Don't take my word for it, here's some measured results: 10.4.11 Xbench score 37.78:

Best OS X?

2011-03-29 Thread thejean...@gmail.com
Hi, everyone :-) First, my apologies for posting this on the wrong list. I've tried to post to the G4 Books list a few times, but my posts aren't being approved there. I haven't gotten any rejection emails, so don't know if my posts are making it to the moderators. :-( What's the best/newest

Re: Best OS X?

2011-03-29 Thread Jonathan Smith
Hi Jean I really do feel your pain Re: the G4 books list, I have the very same problem. I am quite surprised you have been allowed to discuss your PB here. Having been told where to go previously. You don't really need to go any further than this article

Re: Best OS X?

2011-03-29 Thread Mike
I LOVE 10.4 on my older Mac's (PowerBook G4 is one of them). TenFourFox is still being developed to this day, and you still can have the latest flash (although not through the normal installer way). Mike On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Jonathan Smith jonathan.newcas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: Best OS X?

2011-03-29 Thread Albert Carter
Subject: Best OS X? Hi, everyone :-) First, my apologies for posting this on the wrong list. I've tried to post to the G4 Books list a few times, but my posts aren't being approved there. I haven't gotten any rejection emails, so don't know if my posts are making it to the moderators. :-( What's

Re: Best OS X?

2011-03-29 Thread bittin
i think 10.5.8 works nice, works awesome on my Powerbook g4 and as browser goes i use: http://www.rpm-mozilla.org.uk/builds/camino/ -- Ovi Mail: Making email access easy http://mail.ovi.com -- You received this message because you are

Re: Best OS X?

2011-03-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 29, 2011, at 6:54 AM, thejean...@gmail.com wrote: What's the best/newest version of OS X for my 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 PowerBook? I had a friend with a 1.67GHz PowerBook that I upgraded to 10.5.8 and he hated it, and made me downgrade it back to 10.4.11. He mainly used Adobe

Re: Best OS X?

2011-03-29 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/03/29 05:54, thejean...@gmail.com so eloquently wrote: What's the best/newest version of OS X for my 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 PowerBook? Currently, I'm running 10.3.9 and experiencing limitations in browser/Flash upgrades, etc. Currently have 1.5 GB memory. I recently went back to 10.4