Re: Leopard or Snow L?
Re: Leopard or Snow L?
- Subject: Re: Leopard or Snow L?
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 08:23:52 -0700
On May 12, 2010, at 05:58, Eeri Kask wrote:
> Am 05/08/2010 12:45 AM, fred <email@hidden> schrieb:
>> Folks --
>>
>> I finally am forced to upgrade from Tiger, intending to go directly
>> to Snow Leopard unless there is some reason not to. I live in X11
>> (emacs, vmacs) so stability is all.
>
>
> Hello,
>
> may I followup this thread, despite being off-topic, in the hope to
> find technically savvy people giving good advice... :-)
>
>
> (1) Does it make sense to upgrade Tiger to Leopard running on a
> G4-PowerBook-12" laptop?
1) Well, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
2) It is no longer receiving Security Updates, so that may urge you to upgrade.
> Otherwise I would probably upgrade, mostly because of QTKit which in
> Leopard includes
>
> QTCaptureSession
If that's useful, then you should upgrade.
> (The downside means moving away from XFree-X11 which has proven
> exceptionally solid too.)
You can give the new version a try while on Tiger if you want to install MacPorts.
> (2) I am considering to install a second CPU into a current 4-core
> Xeon MacPro (as one processor socket is still empty). Local Apple
> guys say this is not supposed to be done (in particular because of
> some heating problems which could arise then etc), but I cannot see
> if this is simply a "salesman's talk" while trying selling a
> completely new machine instead. Though having 8 cores in total
> makes more computational (... and financial) sense as to buy a
> machine of today with, e.g. 6 cores.
>
> Is there anything of substance known in these supposed heating issues?
That seems bizarre to me. I'd do a little google investigation about that rather than trust one salesman.
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