Leopard, can my system handle it?

Can my powermac g4 dual 1 ghz 1gb ram handle Leopard? If I install it will it be sluggish, I'm currently running Tiger, is it worth upgrading to Leopard?

I'm not sure i'd risk it.... i'd save your money.

I installed leopard on my imac. cost me $137.... 7 days later I removed it.... was the slowest and most problematic OS i've ever installed on a mac (And I've upgraded OSs many times over the years). My imac didn't like it one bit.... over an hour on the phone with apple tech did not help. The finder was so slow.

I sold leopard on ebay at a loss and went back to tiger. Imac is fast again. I was not impressed one bit with leopard.... for the most part.

Go for it it is fast and rock solid. Consider upgrading the memory to 2GB.

murdocity said:

Can my powermac g4 dual 1 ghz 1gb ram handle Leopard? If I install it will it be sluggish, I'm currently running Tiger, is it worth upgrading to Leopard?

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first post here.

So to answer your question, yes, it will be sluggish compared to tiger. But if you throw another 512 or gig stick in there you're golden. I'm not sure what the 1ghz machines stocked with in the line of superdrives either, but if you have the pioneer DVR-104, I wouldn't try the installation from the DVD. I had over 15 failed attempts and hours on hold with apple before I upgraded to the DVR-115D ($35). First attempt, quick and smooth. Good luck, leopard is tight

thanks guys, I think I will try to install leopard I got it for free so I don't have anything to lose. thanks

only thing you may lose is speed. I know I did. let us know how it goes.

i think it will be fine, i am running it on my 1.25 ghz imac and it runs faster than my 2ghz windows computer. it runs without any irritating pauses, that is.

I have the same iMac as Justin, with 1.25gb RAM, and it runs slow. Boot up takes approx 6 mins, launching iTunes or other larger apps takes 30-60 secs to open. I could increase the RAM to 2gb, but I don't want to take my machine apart to do so. Or pay to have it done. Other than the slowness, I am still pleased with Leopard and its features.

let us know how it went! good luck!

Guys I installed Leopard on my G4 quicksilver and it runs like a champ. Startup time is not even a minute. I installed it from the superdrive and it installed in about 1 hour. Works perfect.

gary61071 said:

I have the same iMac as Justin, with 1.25gb RAM, and it runs slow. Boot up takes approx 6 mins, launching iTunes or other larger apps takes 30-60 secs to open. I could increase the RAM to 2gb, but I don't want to take my machine apart to do so. Or pay to have it done. Other than the slowness, I am still pleased with Leopard and its features.

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Something is not right with your setup. Check log in items under System Preferences and make sure nothing is selected. Normal Leopard boot time is about 50 seconds.

harryb2448 said:

Something is not right with your setup. Check log in items under System Preferences and make sure nothing is selected. Normal Leopard boot time is about 50 seconds.

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Okay, I will try that this weekend (at work now, not at home).

I checked it out and the only thing selected was iTunesHelper. I deselected it and restarted it. It still took a few minutes to boot up, perhaps around 5 min. Just slightly better.

I didn't mess around on my imac a whole lot this weekend to discover more about this problem. Too busy packing and moving to a house.

Something is seriously corrupted. When settled do an erase and install after running Repair Disk from install DVD to check things out (again).

It'll be fine.

only thing you may lose is speed. I know I did. let us know how it goes.

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Yes, but something has gone seriously wrong for you somewhere if your aluminium iMac is having problems.

When I fist upgraded my Dual 1ghz Quicksilver G4 it ran like a dog .....

I lost itunes, system preferences after the first use, preview and a couple of other programmes, notably Photoshop CS3. And it was eating disk space like never before.

Finally talked to Apple Genius bar when I was in store. They just suggested reloading and starting again.

Worked a treat, sorted all the problems out.

I do still get a certain amount of spinning beach-balls. But overall fairly solid so far.

I did have to remove a lot of icons from the desktop as these were taking up memory due to the way Leopard sees them and treats them as separate windows. And I cannot open too many programmes now due to the memory limitations (cannot upgrade beyond 1.5gb, so fully loaded)

Steve

Good afernoon every one
I'm just starting using mac
I havean Ibook G4 at 1.33GH and I have 1.25 GB DDR
Running OS 10.3.9 Panther any one thing 10.4 or 10.5 will be better for this machine.
any way I can get ir arroend here
please advice
thanks

How to uninstall programs on Mac?
I install Iwork but I want to removed it, How I can do it?
thanks

Download a program such as AppZapper or AppTrap. Drag iWork to the trash and the utility will do the rest.