Did Leopard speed up or slow down your Mac?

I'm curious what affect Leopard has had on the speed of your Mac since you upgraded. I've heard that previous OS X updates were good about actually making your Mac faster than before. Coming from my background in Windows, quite the opposite was true.

Please include the follow in your reply so others with similar configs can use your system as a benchmark for what *might* happen with a similar setup.

Mac Type (Macbook, MBP, iMac, etc):
CPU Speed and Processor Type:
RAM:
Install type (Upgrade, clean install, archieve and install, etc):

Thanks!

Faster here (from the moment Spotlight finished indexing and Time Machine finished it's initial full backup). How much faster? Not sure, but everything seems faster in general, and Mail.app absolutely SCREAMS now. I'm so happy about that, that it would have been worth the price of admission alone (I use email a lot - with several mailboxes. ).

Specs:

Macbook C2D 2.0GHz
2GB RAM
Archive and install

I haven't done any proper tests as yet but it seems a bit faster on my mac (but its a fast one anyway).

Mac Type: iMac
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8GHz
RAM: 4Gb
Install type: Upgrade

Faster here as well, especially after the Spotlight index, like digitalscrap said.

Macbook Core2Duo 2.0GHz
2GB RAM
Erase & Install

Faster for me

MacBook Pro 2.40Ghz
2GB RAM
Upgrade

Well, faster once Spotlight had finished, and I'd rebooted a couple of times. Also I've noticed a couple of apps are a bit slow the first time you open them, but from then on fasssst!

Also can report my brother's iBook 1.3Ghz or thereabouts.. I don't know the actual spec :< with 1GB memory saw a speed upgrade too, he's quite happy. He did just the plain Upgrade, too.

Kash and digitalscrap!

did you guys do a clean install or a update?

Core Duo 2ghz, 2GB, MacBook.

Clean Install.

Dock - Slower, everything else quicker.

Dock slower too.
Same speed for other stuff I think. Not slower anyway.

what does that mean, dock slower? launching apps from the dock?

No, the animation is less smooth. Its a bit laggy when you magnify

digitalscrap said:

Faster here (from the moment Spotlight finished indexing and Time Machine finished it's initial full backup).

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Ditto

andrebnu said:

Kash and digitalscrap!

did you guys do a clean install or a update?

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Archive and install for me. This is my personally preferred method.

Mac Type: PowerMac G5
CPU Speed and Processor Type: 2 dual core 2.5 Ghz G5 (4 CPUs)
RAM: 3Gb
Install type: A&I

Mac Type: iMac 20 inch
CPU Speed and Processor Type: 2Ghz C2D
RAM: 1.5Gb
Install type: A&I

Mac Type: iBook
CPU Speed and Processor Type: 1Ghz G4
RAM: 768Mb
Install type: A&I

Mac Type: iBook
CPU Speed and Processor Type: 1.25Ghz G4
RAM: 768Mb
Install type: A&I

The first two are noticeably faster, which is not uncommon with an A&I since it IS a clean install of the base OS. The two iBooks are a bit faster but some of the core graphics eye candy, like the transparent menu bar, don't work.

4 A&I's, no glitches.

Mac Type: iMac 20" - 240 GB Hard Drive
CPU Speed and Processor Type: 2.16 GHz Intel C2D
RAM: 1GB
Install type: Upgrade

It's blazing fast since the upgrade, and no problems (except Neo Office won't work).

much slower

I have an Imac Intel 2 gig ram and a macbook 2ghz, 2 gig ram. I have installed leopard as an upgrade for both. both seem to lag when opening applications as well as in mail when applying flags etc.....

is a clean install Better? I assume so. how do I do that but restore all my apps etc.. afterwards?

I'm pretty new to mac
thanks for any help

robert

I have a MB 2.16GHz with 2 GB RAM and I definitely don't notice Leopard to be any slower than Tiger. I did an archive and install. Some things seem to be a little quicker.

I do notice the dock doesn't move as smoothly, though. I wouldn't call it slower, just kind of shaky when moving across it with the magnification. Not enough to alarm me, but I hope there will be some sort of update to address it.

Faster? Maybe. Slower, definitely not.

Clean install

Blazing fast, I can notice a huge difference and I love it

Faster for me too.... specially the shutdown seemed far faster than Tiger.. rest of the apps are bit faster

MacBook 2.16 GHz
1 gigabyte of ram
Clean installation

Faster!

I Think ? a little slower

I "upgraded" on Friday night MBP 15" 2.33ghz/2gb/120gb the Dock etc seem fine but boot-up is also 3 times longer, and the Hardrive/fans are working a good minute or so after the desktop comes up reminds me of my old windows machine, iphoto hung on its first start and finder crashed once while spotlight was indexing overall doesn’t seem as robust as tiger for me is the consensus to do a fresh install ???(posted in speed issues but I thought the comment is relevant here)