Re: Leopard and min-spec 867Mhz G4 FP iMac?

In article <2007111922203916807-stephedanospam@maccom>,
Dan Stephenson <stephedanospam@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Apple says a 867MHz G4 is the minimum for Leopard.

How well does it run on that kind of machine? Anyone out there in that
situation?

Having upgraded from 10.3.9, I'm running Leopard on an 867 MHz
Quicksilver w/ 1.2 GB RAM, 2 MB L3 cache, 256 KB L2 cache, 133 MHz bus
speed, GeForce2 MX graphics card, 2 internal drives, and 32 MB VRAM.
That should give you enough stats to compare. I'm also running it on a
1.2 GHz ibook and a new iMac so I have a decent means of comparison.
First, I installed Leopard on an external FW drive just to be sure it
would run all right and also as a universal boot drive for maintenance
purposes. I recommend this before putting it on the iMac.

Leopard runs noticeably faster than Panther on the QS but there are a
couple of minor drawbacks. I cannot run as many applications at one
time as before, nor as many simultaneous processes. For instance, I can
run Firefox, iTunes, Mail, MT-NW, Safari, NoteTaker, and Pages, in
addition to a number of background apps like Little Snitch, Dictionary,
etc, w/o it bogging down. But I do notice some brief interruptions when
iTunes is playing a podcast at the same time I'm doing some heavy web
surfing and iTunes starts downloading new pod or vodcasts. For this
reason, I elected to have iTunes do only one download at a time. I also
see some significant differences in web page rendering that are visually
challenging. Though I have exactly the same fonts and sizes specified
for the browsers in Leopard as I do in Panther, some pages on some
websites render significantly more poorly in Leopard. I have no idea
why. Despite the few quirks, it was well worth the effort for me.

Of course Leopard runs faster on our other Macs. But I must admit I was
very surprised how well it runs on my 2001 Quicksilver.
.

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