I recently purchased a 17" 1.33GHz Powerbook G4 (Aluminum) and was
wondering which would be the best (as far as speed/responsiveness) OS
to install on this Mac: 10.4 or 10.5? I have install discs for both.
I will be moving over a 5400RPM drive and will be installing between
1.5 and 2GB of RAM.
Sp
I believe you'll find Tiger somewhat more responsive, but do watch for S/W
(apps/utilities) requirements etc.
Enjoy it
Ted
--- On Mon, 7/12/09, mythmaker18 wrote:
From: mythmaker18
Subject: Leopard or Tiger?
To: "G-Group"
Date: Monday, 7 December, 2009, 13:41
I recently purchased a 17" 1.3
Chose 7200 rpm drive... instead of large and slow 5400 if you looking every
inch responsiveness...
I am using a 1.67 Powerbook 15 inch Hi-Res with 10.5. In my opinion never
fall 2 version behind if you use the system in working computer. So 10.5 is
okey for to use it. Just disable some selectable
I think you would be better off with Tiger??? Based on my experience in the
past when you go up to the next OS it tends to slow it down... I would hang on
to the Leopard disc just in case you start having trouble with Tiger but I
don't see this anytime soon... I would max out the memory thou
mythmaker18 wrote:
> I recently purchased a 17" 1.33GHz Powerbook G4 (Aluminum) and was
> wondering which would be the best (as far as speed/responsiveness) OS
> to install on this Mac: 10.4 or 10.5? I have install discs for both.
>
> I will be moving over a 5400RPM drive and will be installing bet
The drive already has Tiger on it (and I've already run 'disable Tiger
features' and stripped out the unnecessary languages, G3 support, etc
for optimisation), so I may stick with that.
By the way, I put a 5400 in there rather than looking for a 7200
because some people online seemed to be of the
In my expreince and readings at most %8 speed difference and generally %5
speed difference inbetween 10.4 and 10.5. Even i try 10.4 on my powerbook
after i install 10.5 because of recovery and returned back 10.5. I fell no
difference in gui ( I always disable transparent dock and dashboard
applicat
Well... Last night I took the fuser out...
Didn't see a single wire running the length of the thing? Did I miss
something?
But there were four or five sets (4 each) of thin "feeler" type wires
sticking up, where they'd touch the paper. Many seemed to have bits
of schmutz stuck on their ends
After going through all the resets with no changes I decided to pull
the card again and noticed a difference in one of the gold foil
contacts on the board.
It was kind of crumpled up as if it peeled off the board during
insertion.
My question now is : Is there a way to repair such a tiny con
On Dec 7, 2009, at 9:59 AM, tsaec...@att.net wrote:
> After going through all the resets with no changes I decided to pull
> the card again and noticed a difference in one of the gold foil
> contacts on the board.
> It was kind of crumpled up as if it peeled off the board during
> insertion.
>
>
Good reason There ain't one.
The 'fuser' is a HOT surface to 'fuse' (melt the toner [finely ground
plastic] into the surface of the paper.
The 'charging wires' are next to the 'imaging drum' --- [photoactive
surface that receives toner to form image] [NO fingers on drum
surface please
At 10:07 AM -0800 12/6/2009, Demetrius wrote:
>thanks for the feedback folks, i've left the drives spinning and that
>seems to have solved the problem. but should i be worried that running
>the drives will significantly shorten their life span?!
Repeated spin up/down cycles are far far far harder
I put a new 7200RPM drive in my Pismo and at a rough guess I would say it made
it 10-15% faster.
On one of the LEM articles someone put Tiger and Leopard on the same G4
Powerbook ( 1.4Ghz from memory ) and using benchmarking tests found that
Leopard slowed it down by only 4% - hardly noticeable
On Dec 7, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Stewie de Young wrote:
> On one of the LEM articles someone put Tiger and Leopard on the same
> G4 Powerbook ( 1.4Ghz from memory ) and using benchmarking tests
> found that Leopard slowed it down by only 4% - hardly noticeable in
> my opinion.
That would be this
Hi Listers,
Sorry I haven't been back but with *most* of my problems solved, I've
been too busy enjoying my Macs. :-) Anyway, present status:
1. After my BF replaced its PRAM battery, the Mini worked just fine.
2. My boyfriend helped me establish an Ethernet network (I have a hub)
and KVM sharin
At 4:34 PM -0500 12/7/2009, yersi...@cybernex.net wrote:
>
>After my BF replaced its PRAM battery, the Mini worked just fine.
GREAT!!
>Here's the problem -- when I go to System Prefs and click "Network," I
>get this dialog box that says "Your network settings have been changed
>by another app
So the other night I was copying about 30GB of files from my Hackintosh to
my G4 MDD via Ethernet, part way through the copying the two computers got
disconnected, and the Hackintosh no longer had an ip address. I restarted it
and tried it again. It did the same thing. I tried dragging the files fr
On Dec 7, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote:
> So the other night I was copying about 30GB of files from my
> Hackintosh to
> my G4 MDD via Ethernet, part way through the copying the two
> computers got
> disconnected, and the Hackintosh no longer had an ip address.
Look at the system log
EXACTLY! And this is the problem with the article you cited above. The
comparison was done on the same Mac, BUT, the problem is that only one
HD was used, and it was a triple booting (three partitions) of one
single HD. The difference between partitions on one HD can be in the
10-15% o
Well maybe that is your experience Kris but the three people I have spoken to
since have said Leopard ran
1) as fast as Tiger on a MDD dual 1GHz ( not faster but then not slower either )
2) noticeably slower on a MDD single1.25 GHz
3) noticeably faster on a Powerbook 1.33 GHz
All these were fres
The PowerBook I used to copy the files is a G4 1.25GHZ. All of the machines
are plugged into the same 10/100 router. This is why I think the MDD is at
fault. I was going to look at the logs on the Hack, but I upgraded the HD
and therefor reformatted, thats why I needed to move those files. As I sai
On Dec 7, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Stewie de Young wrote:
> Besides try it for a while and if you don't like it, wipe the HD and
> reinstall Tiger.
Yes, this is exactly what I've had to do for a friend whose aluminum
PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz was "too slow" with Photoshop under Leopard
10.5.8 and "ver
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