MultiFinder
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I got really bored today, and tries playing around with stupidly low RAM amounts in my G4 (Gigabit Ethernet, dual 500MHz). It normally has 896 megs of RAM in it and runs 10.5.2 quite happily.
Trial 1: 256 megs of RAM. Leopard booted, slowly, and took its time loading in the UI after logging in. After that, it was okay-ish. Slow, but mostly usable.
Trial 2: 128 megs of RAM. Leopard booted, slowly, and then took a good two-three minutes loading in the UI after logging in. Pulling down a menu would cause disk thrashing, bringing up the Dock would cause disk thrashing, and don't even get me started on launching anything. Slow and horrible; think iPhone loading webpages over EDGE, but with one bar of signal. It was that bad
Trial 3: 64 megs of RAM. This was my favourite, by far. Stuck the 64 meg stick in there, poked the power button, and watched the Happy Mac come up and welcome me to OS 9.2 The poor thing was just like "No, mate, you dun wanna boot X on me with 64 megs of RAM. Here, try out OS 9." That's an awesome feature, but I really wanted to see Leopard on 64 megs of RAM. Ah well, looks like 128 is the lowest you can go.
So yeah, that's the result of my experiment. Any questions, comments, whatever?
Trial 1: 256 megs of RAM. Leopard booted, slowly, and took its time loading in the UI after logging in. After that, it was okay-ish. Slow, but mostly usable.
Trial 2: 128 megs of RAM. Leopard booted, slowly, and then took a good two-three minutes loading in the UI after logging in. Pulling down a menu would cause disk thrashing, bringing up the Dock would cause disk thrashing, and don't even get me started on launching anything. Slow and horrible; think iPhone loading webpages over EDGE, but with one bar of signal. It was that bad
Trial 3: 64 megs of RAM. This was my favourite, by far. Stuck the 64 meg stick in there, poked the power button, and watched the Happy Mac come up and welcome me to OS 9.2 The poor thing was just like "No, mate, you dun wanna boot X on me with 64 megs of RAM. Here, try out OS 9." That's an awesome feature, but I really wanted to see Leopard on 64 megs of RAM. Ah well, looks like 128 is the lowest you can go.
So yeah, that's the result of my experiment. Any questions, comments, whatever?