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- inactive, on 11/01/2007, -6/+201866 GIGAHERTZ?! Maybe it's time I switched to a Mac...
- Iwantawii, on 11/03/2007, -6/+66I just installed it on a PowerBook G4 @ 1.5GHz and 768MB RAM.
Finder and general networking is much faster for me -- generally better "threading" especially with shared drives, UI hang-ups seem to be gone.
DVD Player and iTunes (Shared Library over an Airport Extreme Base Station) work well. Safari, Mail, and iCal are snappy and very usable.
Spaces works well, CoverFlow art loads slower than you can fly through the covers, but this is for the art only and interactivity/selection is still snappy.
iLife'08 and iWork'08 lag slightly behind almost everything I do, but still "interactive" in the sense of the word.
For semi-older hardware near the caliber of mine, I strongly recommend the upgrade to Leopard for the snappy Finder and Networking alone. - thedarkrabbit, on 10/28/2007, -4/+42About this fast.
- chris9902, on 10/28/2007, -12/+35Hardly an in-depth benchmark test is it. buried.
- natenovs, on 10/29/2007, -6/+27i call bs. ran it on a mobile pentium 1.4gz, with 512 of ram and an integrated video card.
- chris9902, on 10/28/2007, -3/+22I guess I was expecting too much then. silly me for wanting some data, a test or maybe a nice bar graph.
- Herolint, on 10/28/2007, -0/+17I just installed in on both a MacBook Pro and a first generation Mac Mini. It is usable on the mini, but more fun to use on the MBP.
The only huge festering wart I have run into was with Adobe Photoshop. I made the "mistake" of installing Leopard using the case-sensitive filesystem option. Adobe developers and product managers, being the fetid lumps of camel poop that they are, don't support this, so I had to reinstall everything.
Adobe, you suck. - chevyorange, on 10/28/2007, -2/+18My 2004 Dual 2GHz G5 is much, much faster with Leopard than any previous incarnation of OS X. I'm very pleased with it!
- sockdemon, on 10/28/2007, -5/+19Hey, thanks for that; on a semi related note, what colour would you say the sky is on a clear sunny day?
- SuperSunny, on 10/28/2007, -1/+15It's also G4, one core. Leopard takes full advantage of multi-core and 64 bit processors.
- YuriSakazaki, on 10/28/2007, -3/+17My Notebook was 512 MB of Memory, 1.6 GHz Pentium M, and an x300 and Vista ran fine. After upgrading to 2 gigs of RAM it's AMAZING.
- irgeorge, on 10/28/2007, -0/+14So you wouldn't really need leopard on it then...?
- irgeorge, on 10/28/2007, -2/+13http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/A ... ?
- turpenine, on 10/27/2007, -0/+10you have to edit a file to get it to run on low spec hardware but I know people have been doing it for fun all through beta.
- bobbothegrayson, on 10/28/2007, -3/+12Would it even run on an 800mhz iBook G4 with 768mb of RAM?
- fkr3, on 10/27/2007, -3/+12You can't expect too much from Gizmodo. Be impressed that they actually wrote a 3 paragraph article all by themselves!
- mercurysquad, on 10/28/2007, -3/+11green, duh
- johnhummel, on 10/28/2007, -3/+11Might. Give it a shot and tell us how it goes.
- drunkenoaf, on 10/27/2007, -1/+9How did you get it to install on a 700Mhz machine?
- Zalyster, on 10/28/2007, -2/+9I too call shens. 2.8 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, ATI x200 integrated video. Runs perfectly, even with Aero. It ran better with a 6600 GT, but it still ran just fine. Vista is not that slow.
- danbiz3, on 10/28/2007, -0/+6For what it's worth, I installed Leopard on my iMac Core Duo and noticed a significant speed increase over Tiger. I also chose the upgrade, rather than a clean install, so if you have a newer system you won't regret the upgrade.
- justinp, on 10/27/2007, -0/+610.5 runs just fine on my old Titanium PowerBook G4 - 667 MHz and 512MB RAM. The only thing I'm missing is Core Image type stuff that I simply don't have the hardware for (so I'm missing some transparency but it's completely usable).
You do have to extract the install package and edit some values before replacing it in the image if you want to be able to break the minimum install specs and install it on a machine it isn't supposed to be on. It isn't that hard, though. - renegadeafk, on 10/28/2007, -1/+7I used vista fine with a 3.0 Ghz p4, 1 GB ram and a 7600GS...Although I did up my ram which mad it alot faster (2gb) it was still usable with 1 gb, I even played F.E.A.R on it.
- ariza, on 10/27/2007, -0/+6care to share how its done?
- arjie, on 10/28/2007, -1/+6emac? Get two of those and make a gnu happy.
- eschompthis, on 10/28/2007, -1/+6Leopard has a tone of features, but doesnt seem to be more power hungry OS. So it should run well with minimum
- l0rdn1k0n, on 10/27/2007, -2/+7The front page articles are mainly determined by how fast the article is dugg, not the final count.
- daGUY, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4Good to hear. I've got a 1.67 GHz PowerBook with 512 MB of RAM (but 128 of video), so it sounds like it should run pretty smoothly for me. I may upgrade the RAM, though, since that's the bare minimum...
- rblinne, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4Same here. G5 iMac with 1.5G of memory is FASTER on Leopard. Time machine is chugging backing up 200G of disk and it doesn't slow down other tasks. One thing I found out the hard way. If you edited the /etc/hosts file, do the archive and install option. Doing an upgrade crashes in the airport daemon and you get the blue screen of limbo (you're not dead but your not going anywhere either). Leopard needs special info concerning the localhost in that file.
- specialK16, on 10/28/2007, -0/+4XENU!
- justinp, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4While renegadeafk is correct... I know what it's like to just want a simple answer without a lot of footwork
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=37130 ...
Additionally, you don't need to follow any of the "Burn and Re-rip" nonsense from the article. It works perfectly well without ever burning another disc (I always install from a partition I've had setup on a Firewire drive since 10.3. You will need to use Carbon Copy Cloner (as suggested) to create a sparseimage, though (or at least I had to to gain proper read/write access to the .dmg so I could replace the modified OSInstall.mpkg).
I created the install partition directly from the modified sparseimage. - Tetraca, on 10/28/2007, -0/+4866 JIGAHERTZ!!
- MicrosoftBob, on 10/28/2007, -0/+3AMAZING? Is that when the "Wow" started?
- mrgoat, on 10/28/2007, -0/+3Tiger: 40 seconds to login screen and 9 seconds to shut down.
Leopard Install: 1 hour, 14 minutes, 23 seconds (about 2x what it was on my Macbook Pro, but short compared to the 3+ hours it initially reported).
Leopard: 50 seconds to login screen and 11 seconds to shut down.
Basic use: Using Cover Flow with Safari, iChat, and iTunes open and it's choppy. (Quick Look works well, though.)
= ***** testing ever? - Billions, on 10/27/2007, -2/+5"This site sucks."
Yes, but more because of comments like yours than because of Apple... - MicrosoftBob, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3Do you have a link on how to edit the file?
- edstate, on 10/28/2007, -2/+5Just don't try to run the new iMovie on your "ancient" sytem... you know, since it's a consumer app, and you're probably running FCPHD/CS3/PT like I am on my "ancient" system... awesome artificial floor Steve!
- monospaced, on 10/28/2007, -0/+3You didn't install it on the Pro first? I don't even believe you have one.
- MicrosoftBob, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3Or just not clicking on the digg is a start.
- turpenine, on 10/27/2007, -3/+6ran and used are separate an not equal words.
- TheFinaleofSeem, on 10/27/2007, -1/+4Having installed it on a 1ghz eMac with 512MB of RAM, I'd like to say that you're an idiot who has no idea what he's talking about. Leopard was surprisingly snappy on that old machine.
- imthe1, on 10/27/2007, -1/+4ya, i want to know about hardware that is just below minimum spec. obviously if the hardware is over apple requirement it will run. i'm planning on putting Leopard on my 800mhz powerbook G4 w/ 1gig ram.
- TheFinaleofSeem, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2Firewire Target mode to a supported machine works pretty well.
- inactive, on 10/27/2007, -3/+5Block the ***** category then.
- antdude, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2Same here with my old 1 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM. I don't know how much my ATI video card memory there is though. I know I can't play games smoothly like C&C:Generals demo. :(
- Billions, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2OK, cool. So you can understand peoples' enthusiasm about this then!
- justinp, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2Look down a few Diggs. You can install it onto your PowerBook just fine if you're willing to do a little work/follow a tutorial.
- deadbaby, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2You need to modify the installer package to skip the CPU speed check and it will install.
- davidhildreth, on 10/28/2007, -4/+6Just try and run Vista on a computer that old
- wilhoitm, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2Nuff Said!
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