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| Mac Os 10.5 leopard in a Powermac G4 400 mhz |
Posted by: bibilit on 2013-04-22 05:06:35
Home today, and wanted to try a leopard install in the Powermac G4.
Already tried a couple of weeks ago, but didn't worked (KP at the installation process)
Today, using Leopard Assist and a new leopard Disk worked at the second attempt (first one i just asked for an upgrade of the system, but the reboot will end in a shutdown... so i erase the disk, and worked) posting right now with the Powermac.
So far i not so slow, a bit slower, but not that much.
🙂
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Posted by: beachycove on 2013-04-22 16:32:18
A dual 550 Digital Audio also runs it reasonably well, but I am surprised that a single 400 manages. Was there a further improvement after Spotlight had finished indexing?
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Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2013-04-22 16:35:08
heh, I had it on a 400 MHz for a while after my dual 1 GHz CPU upgrade died, and I had to swap back the original 400 MHz CPU. To call it a dog would be improper... Unless that dog was dead. Just unusably slow. (And it had a fast video card and full compliment of RAM.)
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Posted by: theos911 on 2013-04-22 16:58:46
You'll want as much RAM as you can get and either a Dual CPU or a Core Image capable video card. Optimally, you want both.
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Posted by: bibilit on 2013-04-23 00:11:26
Was there a further improvement after Spotlight had finished indexing? Spotlight can be disabled, and probably some utilities.
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Posted by: theos911 on 2013-04-23 03:46:07
Switching to the 2D dock and turning off the more obvious visual effects helps out too. I've got a pile of links on slimming down Leopard here somewhere.
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Posted by: TheMacGuy on 2013-04-23 10:36:17
My 350MHz Sawtooth runs Leopard really nicely. Factory Rage 128 Pro and 768MB of RAM.
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Posted by: bibilit on 2013-04-23 13:07:32
I've got a pile of links on slimming down Leopard here somewhere. Yes, can be useful.
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Posted by: Bender on 2013-04-23 21:25:31
I'd be interested in that list as well, if you could post it.
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Posted by: theos911 on 2013-04-24 03:21:19
They are all in old bookmark files I'll need to track down.
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Posted by: theos911 on 2013-04-24 12:13:34
Here is what I had in my old booksmarks, YMMV:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120808030015/http://www.worthlessgenius.com/2009/08/18/how-to-speed-up-your-powerpc-mac/
http://www.interrupt19.com/2008/09/04/performance-speed-tweaks-to-get-more-out-of-leopard/
http://www.imafish.co.uk/articles/52-ways-speed-os-x
http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/277846-universalaccessapp.html
http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=83269
http://lowendmac.com/eubanks/07/0312.html
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050504012104186
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050723123302403
http://web.archive.org/web/20100204021840/http://www.macmod.com/software-mods/mac-os/1571-leopard-on-pre-pci
http://beautifulpixels.com/macintosh/replacement-docks-mac/
That is what was tagged as Mac OS X anyway. They should be mostly Tiger/Leopard relevant.
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