tiger on g4 400?
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- davey_g0
I'm using it on my G4/400 maxed out with ram. It works very smooth....but not as smooth as my G5/2G!
- KILLputer0
The thing is Tiger is a RAM hog and spotlight is slow on older machines... and CS2 is slower in general than regualr CS.
The best way to run that machine would be with a lot of RAM
Panther
and CS 1not that Tiger and CS2 will not work- but they will be a bit slower
- duckofrubber0
thanks fo the great responses so far.
i've been running jaguar on my g4 400 and I put off getting panther for so long in order to upgrade computers but now that tiger's out and i use it at work, i just want it! plus cs2 is miles above cs...
- designerror0
I find this app very useful on my old macs, speeds them up a bit
- nopublik0
just installed tiger on my 800mhz quicksilver, 256mb ram, runs so smooth even at video editing with final cut pro 4.0
- seed0
I installed it on a g4 350 and the performance increase was huge. I think my previous install may have been corruted though.
- determinedmoth0
Yup. This shit still works. Seems kind of fashionable to have the latest apple kit though. Waste of money when all you need is ram and space. A G3 processor is still pretty quick.
- chameleonic0
Anyway. Apple products go retro within 8 months...
So True. it's funny looking back at the specs that were so cutting edge say 4 or 5 years ago but are still usable today, you realise the speed and power snobbery that exists these days
- chameleonic0
Our companies mail server is an old green iMac.
determinedmoth
(Oct 12 05, 05:16)Now that's what I'm taking about!
I'm still running my G3 Pismo powerbook as my main machine since my PC desktop died. admitedly it's hot rodded though - G4550, 1GBRAM, 40G HD and an external drive for my media files.
saving up for something more meaty though
- determinedmoth0
Anyway. Apple products go retro within 8 months...
- determinedmoth0
Bring on the retro users!
chameleonic
(Oct 12 05, 05:14)Our companies mail server is an old green iMac.
- determinedmoth0
I'm also running tiger on an old blue and white G3 with less than 1gb ram and it works fine.
- chameleonic0
Bring on the retro users! I find it comforting to know I'm not alone in using years old hardware and getting on fine - sure you need a bit more patience with such machines, but hey! I don't care.
- determinedmoth0
has anyone maxed out their ram on a dual G5? Is it stupidly fast or just stupid?
honest
(Oct 12 05, 04:59)Too much ram will actually slow down your machine unless you're actually using most of it, which I doubt. The more ram you have the more space there is to randomly search through. Unless you're doing some insane video editing there really is no point in having more than 2gb.
- honest0
has anyone maxed out their ram on a dual G5? Is it stupidly fast or just stupid?
- s_t_e_w0
it's running on my boss his g3 300mhz powerbook
but for word and entourage only
- KILLputer0
I have it installed on a 450MHZ and it runs fine but I prefer Panther on there.
I use a dual 450 as my main machine, I run my business on it, and Tiger runs smooth. As I type this i got Photoshop. Illustrator, BBEdit, Firefox, Safari, iTunes, and Transmit open and running no problem.
- jon_0
osx is a pretty unique operating system in that each new version has run a little faster on the same hardware.
- waynepixel0
No
- designerror0
10.4 knock up the speed on older machines imo, installed it on my old old iBook G3 400 and it got noticeable faster compared to 10.3.
And the same with my iMac G4 700