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- iBook G4 (2005) 12"/1G ram/40G HD/10.5
Hullo all,
My son has an iBook (2005) G4 12"/1.33GHz/40GB HD/1G ram with OSX 10.5 and several pre-installed applications, we bought it from a retired aged carer recently who doesnt have the original distribution disks but has backed up various disk images on the drive.
It has been suggested that 10.4 is a much better and faster OS for this laptop but I am concerned about losing functionality with existing apps whislt not getting clear reasons why 10.4 would be a compelling downgrade...
Is it possible to install 10.4 over the top of 10.5 (without any re-format) yet maintain any existing app linkages (either directly or by system mods) so they are still usable as I understand they are already registered.
ie. Is it possible to just change/rewrite the core 10.5 files such that the laptop wakes up running 10.4 (or a suitably patched version) that runs well on this machine without the huge slowdowns I have heard occurs with 10.5
or are the slowdowns a consequence of real improvements in 10.5 function.
I'm just not keen yet to try out the backed up application disk images just in case it cancels any previous registration keys or upsets the apps in any way at all (I am a PC man of old and not sure of this aspect).
Or is it possible I have been misled as to just how bad 10.5 is for this type of laptop - will 10.4 really be that much better, such as mouse/keyboard responsiveness when writing to USB etc Or, for example, would an upgrade to 1.5G ram or a faster (modern HD or flash) circumvent the need to go back to 10.4 at all etc
Thanks for reading and looking forward to responses,
Thanks
ps: This is actually my son's account but he is flat out with school/homework and we will both be using the laptop, cheers
My son has an iBook (2005) G4 12"/1.33GHz/40GB HD/1G ram with OSX 10.5 and several pre-installed applications, we bought it from a retired aged carer recently who doesnt have the original distribution disks but has backed up various disk images on the drive.
It has been suggested that 10.4 is a much better and faster OS for this laptop but I am concerned about losing functionality with existing apps whislt not getting clear reasons why 10.4 would be a compelling downgrade...
Is it possible to install 10.4 over the top of 10.5 (without any re-format) yet maintain any existing app linkages (either directly or by system mods) so they are still usable as I understand they are already registered.
ie. Is it possible to just change/rewrite the core 10.5 files such that the laptop wakes up running 10.4 (or a suitably patched version) that runs well on this machine without the huge slowdowns I have heard occurs with 10.5
or are the slowdowns a consequence of real improvements in 10.5 function.
I'm just not keen yet to try out the backed up application disk images just in case it cancels any previous registration keys or upsets the apps in any way at all (I am a PC man of old and not sure of this aspect).
Or is it possible I have been misled as to just how bad 10.5 is for this type of laptop - will 10.4 really be that much better, such as mouse/keyboard responsiveness when writing to USB etc Or, for example, would an upgrade to 1.5G ram or a faster (modern HD or flash) circumvent the need to go back to 10.4 at all etc
Thanks for reading and looking forward to responses,
Thanks
ps: This is actually my son's account but he is flat out with school/homework and we will both be using the laptop, cheers