Re: Leopard 9C7010 - What hw & sw versions will work together?
Re: Leopard 9C7010 - What hw & sw versions will work together?
- Subject: Re: Leopard 9C7010 - What hw & sw versions will work together?
- From: Jonas Maebe <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:31:44 +0100
On 26 Mar 2008, at 14:01, Laurence Harris wrote:
Up through 10.3 I found every release of Mac OS X to be noticeably
faster than the previous release on my PowerBook G4.
I agree.
I can't say how 10.4 would compare because I left the PowerBook at
10.3 as a testing machine and started running 10.4 when I got a
MacBook Pro. Point is, I wouldn't assume 10.4 or 10.5 is any slower
than 10.3. Might even be faster.
10.4 was, in my experience, quite a bit slower than 10.3, I think
mainly due to spotlight and due to differences in the paging
algorithms (and also as of 10.4.2 and continuing with 10.5 it's become
impossible to set the processor performance of my G5 to "automatic"
without getting the occasional wind tunnel whoosh, which doesn't
happen at either reduced or highest performance). 10.5 seems to be
faster again, but it's also the first version of Mac OS X which feels
sort of unfinished and unpolished to me.
10.3 is still my favourite Mac OS X release to this day. It was very
solid and quite fast. And it had a perfectly working (for me at least)
Mail.app, which in my experience has mainly gone downhill since then
(endless re-downloads and associated re-spotlighting of my IMAP folder
contents in 10.4 (fixed in 10.5), search/replace of strings with
embedded new lines broken since 10.4 (still broken in 10.5), undo/redo
broken in 10.4 (fixed in 10.5), often messes up quotes and editing
quoted text in 10.5, problems with searching for full text in message
boxes since 10.5 (not for everyone, and possibly due to a bug in
spotlight rather than Mail), ... -- and yes, I did file bug reports
for most 10.4 problems, but none of them got fixed in 10.4.x)
But that's enough off topic rambling.
Jonas
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