Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-05 Thread John Carmonne
If the Flower Pot you have has a 100 Bus it will be Slw. Which machine do you have. IMHO Tiger is still the very fastest on the PPC's except for the G5 PM's. JOHN CARMONNE John, the iMac has 80 gig hard drive, 768 mgs of RAM, 800 MHz speed processor and 100 MHz Bus speed. He is going

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-04 Thread Geke
I think it’s wise to leave it at Tiger, especially if you’re more familiar with that and will do tech support. If you give him an administrator account, then the best thing you can do is to get an external HD with Firewire and set up a complete (incremental) backup schedule with Carbon Copy

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Al Poulin
On Mar 2, 11:20 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? The slowdown averages about 15% or so, you can check out the Xbench or   Geekbench archives for exact numbers for your

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread John Carmonne
On Mar 2, 2011, at 8:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am giving my G4 flat screen iMac (lamp shade or 1/2 ball) to a teenager. It has had 10.4 on it forever without any problems. But I am thinking that he may want to run 10.5. Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? Jane If

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Alex Barnes
On my Quicksilver dual 800 it took actually gave it better Geekbench scores. It took a hit on the graphics performance though it was using a Rage 128. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 2, 11:20 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Mar 2,

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Jane, (Portland, OR)
On Mar 2, 8:22 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Mar 2, 2011, at 8:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am giving my G4 flat screen iMac (lamp shade or 1/2 ball) to a teenager. It has had 10.4 on it forever without any problems. But I am thinking that he may want to run 10.5.

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Jane, (Portland, OR)
On Mar 2, 8:20 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? The slowdown averages about 15% or so, you can check out the Xbench or   Geekbench archives for exact numbers for your

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 3, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: Kris, I am admitting ignorance here. I don't know how to interpret the bench marks and what they mean. They're just a scale for comparison. Sometimes the scale isn't very good, but until there's a better scale, it's what we have. In

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Mar 3, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: Another question I have is the Administrator Account. I planned to leave me as an Administrator, but also add him as one, too. Does it work well to have 2 Admins? I will probably do the tech support for him. It works just fine to have

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I would keep it at 10.4, however if you want to, you could use Leopard Assist to override the 867MHZ processor limit. -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

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Tina K.
On 3/2/11 9:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am giving my G4 flat screen iMac (lamp shade or 1/2 ball) to a teenager. It has had 10.4 on it forever without any problems. But I am thinking that he may want to run 10.5. Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? Though I am not a

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-03 Thread Tina K.
On 3/2/11 9:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: I am giving my G4 flat screen iMac (lamp shade or 1/2 ball) to a teenager. It has had 10.4 on it forever without any problems. But I am thinking that he may want to run 10.5. Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? Though I am not a

Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-02 Thread Jane, (Portland, OR)
I am giving my G4 flat screen iMac (lamp shade or 1/2 ball) to a teenager. It has had 10.4 on it forever without any problems. But I am thinking that he may want to run 10.5. Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? Jane -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: Should I put Leopard 5.0 om G4 flat screen iMac?

2011-03-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:13 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: Can this Mac handle 10.5 without a lot of slowdown? The slowdown averages about 15% or so, you can check out the Xbench or Geekbench archives for exact numbers for your specific Mac: http://db.xbench.com/ http://browse.geekbench.ca/