Peter, I endorse everything you say about Tiger!
Severin
On 12/01/2006, at 8:21 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
On 11/01/2006, at 4:57 PM, Paul wrote:
Severin Crisp wrote:
Yes, it is good to have Google Earth. Interestingly they say
you need a 600MHz or faster processor but it seems fine on my
G4/400
Severin Crisp
Forget about Google Earth, how is Tiger on a 400MHz G4?
Specifically speaking, how is Spotlight?
It was on this DP450MHz G4 when I first got it and it seemed too
slow.
Especially Spotlight.
So I replaced it with Panther.
Have updates made Tiger faster since 10.4.1?
Or was I just looking at an isolated example?
If I can step in here (because I'm running a G4/400 as well). I'd
say that my machine has never run as well as it does under Tiger,
and 10.4.4 is the best yet. Yes, Spotlight is certainly slower than
on more modern machines, but then I've also seen it work
brilliantly on a 400Mz G3 iMac! It does seem to have taken a leap
forward in 10.4.4 as well.
There are also speed issues associated with Widgets as they load
for the first time, but after that they run acceptably fast. In
every other respect, Tiger is the best thing that has happened to
my old workhorse.
Like Severin, I am also happy with the speed of Google Earth (not
so much with the age of their maps - Roe Highway in Canning Vale
still shows as a hole in the ground)! It's a very nice piece of
software, though.
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