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Before I install Leopard on my PB...
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I have a TI Book DVI tested with Tiger, Leopard and Yellow Dog Linux. My experience is it runs very nice with Tiger, it is pretty usable with Linux and runs _hot_ with Leopard, making much fan noise. If you have no strong reason for Leopard, you may well stay with Tiger, with the big benefit of a usable Classic environment.
BGoins12
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Thanks for bumping this.... I forgot to update it. I installed Leopard on the 20th, and it runs great. Youtube works sorta ok on 360p, 240p is much better. But since I have Mactubes, I use it instead. The only gripe I have is the fan kicks on more often than it did with Tiger. I think I will evnetually upgrade the HD to a 7200rpm drive since I am running on a 4200rpm one right now. Or even an SSD from OWC.
antony701
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I have a PowerBook G4 (12-inch 1.33GHz, 1.25GB RAM). Leopard runs all right, but nowhere as fast as my Intel iMac and later MacBook Pro. I guess I shouldn't compare Intel to PPC.
Recently, I reverted it back to Tiger (10.4.11), for the sack of running Classic. And I found that Tiger wasn't that bad after all.
Recently, I reverted it back to Tiger (10.4.11), for the sack of running Classic. And I found that Tiger wasn't that bad after all.
beachycove
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... or a single to a dual (quad?) processor machine; a dual G4 is a much more usable machine even in Tiger than a single, and no doubt Leopard would be the same.
A while ago, I hacked a dual 500 G4 card from a tower into a previously stock G4 Cube, and couldn't quite believe how much better/ smoother it ran under X.4.
