Leopard and Tiger speed on PowerPC Macs?

[NeXTstop]

If you are using Leo on PowerPC , what are your impressions respect to Tiger?I mean: it is slower, faster, as fast as, faster only here, slower only here....Finally, is worth to install Leopard on PowerPC or it make the Mac slower?I answer at myself...On my iMAC G5 2.1 ghz, 1 gb ram I have noticed Tiger is more responsive than Leopard. I don't mean far more responsive but a thing sure is this: Tiger is more responsive.I hope in my Leo build 9a559 there is code not optimized, and in the GM version (it should be Leopard build 9a581) the code will be clean so we get Leopard on PowerPc as fast as Tiger, at least.(exscuse me for my bad written english, image my spoken english...)

[FarmerBob]

I have the last PPC that was made, a FW800 and so far Leopard runs faster and feels more stable. Loving that, but there are a lot of bugs in the 9A599 release that makes it kinda a pain. Lots of on screen artifacts; Bluetooth will only work with a keyboard or mouse, preferably the new ones; Alias linking files to databases is questionable at best; HATE the new folders and that 10.5 changes icons in the dock as it pleases; can't stack folders and I see that the way (3) that things onfold are as Apple pleases. I migrated as an experiment and most everything went well, but as a whole I can't use it mainstream yet. I pray that they have a special release in the wings that will take care of all of this and more. Otherwise, I'll wait. I play in it every so often, but when I have tried to work in it, no joy.

 

But the new freeze that the new iMacs are experiencing and so are is my FW800, MacBook Pro and Powerbook, (since updating to "Sabotaged" 10.4.10) aren't happening in 10.2, 10.3, and 10.5. I swear they sabotaged 10.4, starting with 10.4.5, just like 10.3.8/9 to get us to flee to 10.4. But since 10.5 got delayed their little "marketing plan" as I was told by an AppleCare rep, they called it during the 10.3/10.4 migration, backfired this time.

 

I love the count down clock on the Apple.com mainpage. Just wish the rest of 10.5 was as intense and sophisticated. It's FanBoy perfect though.

[westep23]

Kinda off topic, but isn't FW800 the last of the g4's and not ppc?

[Synaesthesia]

FW800 = Firewire 800

[mifki]

g4 = ppc architecture

[Lactobacillus P]

I tried one of the older developers releases on my G4 1.2Ghz with Ati 6800 graphics card (see signature). That ran slower than Tiger from an internal harddrive, but as it was an early release it might have not been as fast as the latest definite version.

 

Apple has a good name when it comes to producing a faster version of OSX every time, 10.4 runs faster than 10.3, and 10.3 ran faster than 10.2 on my G4. I believe that if your G4 meets the minimum requirements it will probably function well, perhaps even better than Tiger.

Make sure QE and CI are supported by Leopard on your older system.

 

I will probably upgrade to Leopard on my G4 1.2Ghz, perhaps also the mini.

[luminousnerd]

I do believe it will be faster. Maybe not 10.5 but 10.5.1 and such. But yeah, all the successive versions of OS X have run FASTER, not slower, than their predecessors. That's the way it should be. Microsoft is insane, that's the only reason they keep making their new OS slower and {censored}tier than the previous.

[ukp]

Build 9A559 on a PowerBook 17" 1.67ghz and 1 GB of ram appears to run as smooth as it does on my Macbook Pro 2.4ghz.

 

Of course thats just the OS itself, other apps are generally slower (like VLC which can't decode mkv fast enough on the PB). Neooffice takes longer to open etc.