Re: Running OS X 10.5

2009-09-11 Thread michael bluestein
Hello, I am not as experienced as most are on LEM but I have a iBook G4 1.33Ghz and only 512 MG of RAM and Leopard seems to work just fine on it. I bought a GIG of RAM to install but have not done so yet because the iBook is running fine.Michael Bluestein Prospect Park, PA iBook G4 On Wed, Sep

Re: Running OS X 10.5

2009-09-10 Thread Jarett DeAngelis
I haven't ever found that to be the case on that class of hardware, but your usage may be much more limited than mine. Rich media web browsing, Entourage, Adium and moderate use of Dashboard will occupy those resources very, very quickly. -- Jarett T. DeAngelis, MS Sr. IT Support Engineer

Re: Running OS X 10.5

2009-09-10 Thread Simon Royal
Hi. To reiterate what I said earlier, I run Leopard on an 867Mhz G4 TiBook originally with 768MB of RAM. It is my main Mac and I do everything on it. It runs lovely. Very happy with the performance and I run apps like OpenOffice, Photoshop, GIMP, VLC, Audacity etc daily without too much

Re: Running OS X 10.5

2009-09-10 Thread Brian McDonald
Leopard runs just fine on anything over 512 MB. I agree 100% my main mac right now is a 700mhz g4 iMac with just the bare-bones 512mb of ram. I installed Leopard although unsupported, and noticed no change in performance from tiger to leopard. Sometimes I do feel that leopard is maybe a

Running OS X 10.5

2009-09-09 Thread WAYNE H FOWLER
I have an iMac G4 1.25 17 FP with 1 gig of ram. I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 now. When I thought of upgrading to Leopard, I read that it likes to see at least 2 gigs of ram to run smoothly. Does anyone have any experience with running Leopard with this configuration? How important would it be

Re: Running OS X 10.5

2009-09-09 Thread Simon Royal
Wayne Go for it. Leopard runs perfectly well with 1GB of RAM. Of course it will be better under 2GB. I had a 1.25Ghz G4 eMac. It had 1.5GB of RAM and Leopard ran lovely on it. I currently have an 867Mhz G4 PowerBook TiBook. It has 1GB of RAM and Leopard runs lovely on that too. Simon On

Re: Running OS X 10.5

2009-09-09 Thread bhealthyagain
with memory than a Windows based machine. Garth -Original Message- From: WAYNE H FOWLER whfo...@msn.com To: imaclist@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Sep 9, 2009 3:23 pm Subject: Running OS X 10.5 I have an iMac G4 1.25 17 FP with 1 gig of ram.? I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 now

Re: Running OS X 10.5

2009-09-09 Thread Elliott Price
than a Windows based machine. Garth -Original Message- From: WAYNE H FOWLER whfo...@msn.com To: imaclist@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Sep 9, 2009 3:23 pm Subject: Running OS X 10.5 I have an iMac G4 1.25 17 FP with 1 gig of ram. I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 now. When I thought

Re: Running OS X 10.5

2009-09-09 Thread Clark Martin
WAYNE H FOWLER wrote: I have an iMac G4 1.25 17 FP with 1 gig of ram. I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 now. When I thought of upgrading to Leopard, I read that it likes to see at least 2 gigs of ram to run smoothly. Does anyone have any experience with running Leopard with this configuration?

Re: Running OS X 10.5

2009-09-09 Thread Malcolm O'Brien
I have an iMac G4 1.25 17 FP with 1 gig of ram. I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 now. When I thought of upgrading to Leopard, I read that it likes to see at least 2 gigs of ram to run smoothly. Does anyone have any experience with running Leopard with this configuration? Yeah! Mine's slower

Re: Running OS X 10.5

2009-09-09 Thread Dan
At 1:23 PM -0600 9/9/2009, WAYNE H FOWLER wrote: iMac G4 1.25 17 FP with 1 gig of ram. I'm running Tiger 10.4.11 now. When I thought of upgrading to Leopard, I read that it likes to see at least 2 gigs of ram to run smoothly. Does anyone have any experience with running Leopard with this