10.5 really was better than 10.4 due to underlying changes to threading in the kernel. Things ran WAY faster... for awhile... until Apple's inane "GC" requirements kicked in and they lost all the performance gains they'd claimed. Boo on them... that was when Windows+Linux pulled ahead, relatively speaking.
Anyway if your machine can run 10.5, do so. And yes I believe you'll need to burn a DVD to upgrade. Shouldn't be hard. You can get a firewire based DVD-R drive for next to nothing maybe if you look around (assuming the machine doesn't have one already). -- -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vintage-macs/CADqfMZL3j1r%3DOGmWvSX0H2NZXxytdxmqYMi%3DqLT_kN%2Bb3kDLFQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
