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Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / May 2008P/Book G4 1.33ghz - 10.4 or 10.5?
I'm after an upgrade from 10.3, to allow sync'ing of my iphone. 10.4 seems to go for a premium price at the moment - typically over £40. 10.5 is available for £30. What would be best OS to go for? Would 10.5 be too slow with the 768mb ram I have? Thanks Alan.  SignatureTo reply by e-mail, change the ' + ' to 'plus'. > I'm after an upgrade from 10.3, to allow sync'ing of my iphone. > 10.4 seems to go for a premium price at the moment - typically over £40. > 10.5 is available for £30. > > What would be best OS to go for? > Would 10.5 be too slow with the 768mb ram I have? All depends on what you're doing. Not sure that 10.5 uses more RAM on the whole than 10.4. I get patches of mad disc swapping using 10.4 with the 768MB RAM in this 'ere G4 iLamp, but generally things work nice and smoothly just so long as I'm not expecting things to work quickly when I have lots of Web pages open or similar. But I've got 11 apps open at the moment and things are fine. Just added a 12th: Activity Monitor. Bit of a thrash to open it, 40MB free, 5.78GB VM size, working just nicely. If I were you, and didn't need Classic, I'd get 10.5. But I don't know what Mac you've got - that might make a difference. Rowland. SignatureRemove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell@dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking > I'm after an upgrade from 10.3, to allow sync'ing of my iphone. > 10.4 seems to go for a premium price at the moment - typically over £40. > 10.5 is available for £30. > > What would be best OS to go for? > Would 10.5 be too slow with the 768mb ram I have? Hope not - I'm intending to install 10.5 on a 1GHz iLamp, which only has that much RAM. Anyone know whether the "CPU Drop-in DVD" will work on all supported Macs, or is it machine specific? Google tells me that it is possible to do a clean install from these upgrade DVDs, although I have Tiger already. SignaturePd > > I'm after an upgrade from 10.3, to allow sync'ing of my iphone. > > 10.4 seems to go for a premium price at the moment - typically over £40. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Hope not - I'm intending to install 10.5 on a 1GHz iLamp, which only has > that much RAM. 10.5.3 on this 1GHz 12" Powerbook runs like a dream in 768MB. Spotlight is definitely faster and better than Tiger's, and as far as I can see, everything else is too, but not by much. It is also running OK in a 512MB 1.25 GHz G4 mini, but that only does mail and web serving these days. I used a Family pack to upgrade all our Macs at home in one swell foop. SignatureTo de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 > > > I'm after an upgrade from 10.3, to allow sync'ing of my iphone. > > > 10.4 seems to go for a premium price at the moment - typically over £40. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > mail and web serving these days. > I used a Family pack to upgrade all our Macs at home in one swell foop. runs fine here, on the 1st 12incher, ie 867mhz. does have the full ram, of 1.12 GB. does barf on importing photos from the SLR some times. but other than that seems fine. way too slow for Sa though. roger Signaturewww.rogermerriman.com > I'm after an upgrade from 10.3, to allow sync'ing of my iphone. > 10.4 seems to go for a premium price at the moment - typically over £40. > 10.5 is available for £30. > > What would be best OS to go for? I would go for 10.5. > Would 10.5 be too slow with the 768mb ram I have? 10.5 should be fine. I doubt on the powerbook you would notice the difference in speed between them SignatureWoody > I'm after an upgrade from 10.3, to allow sync'ing of my iphone. > 10.4 seems to go for a premium price at the moment - typically over £40. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Thanks > Alan. What about this one <http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?prodID=1478677&viewSpec=y#productTop> In article <arSdnWep0vaDR6LVnZ2dnUVZ8uidnZ2d@posted.plusnet>, David Kennedy <davidkennedy@nospamformethanksverymuchyoubastards.invalid> wrote: > What about this one > > <http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?prodID=1478677&viewSpec=y#productTop> I don't get it, how can they sell the OS so cheap? Warez? SignatureCheers Martin > In article <arSdnWep0vaDR6LVnZ2dnUVZ8uidnZ2d@posted.plusnet>, > David Kennedy [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > I don't get it, how can they sell the OS so cheap? Warez? Dunno; I found three or four other sites with the same product at similar prices... What's the catch ? Is it an upgrade disc ? David Kennedy <davidkennedy@nospamformethanksverymuchyoubastards.invalid> wrote: > > In article <arSdnWep0vaDR6LVnZ2dnUVZ8uidnZ2d@posted.plusnet>, > > David Kennedy [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > What's the catch ? Is it an upgrade disc ? "Media Kits are disks containing software that can only be used if your organisation has an existing Licence Agreement. As part of such agreements, users will be provided with a licence key that will enable the software. Without the required licence key, the software will not install." <http://www.morecomputers.co.uk/TechDesc.asp?pn=MB432ZM%2FA> Although I don't think I've seen any "licence key" enabling MacOS installs, so it probably works, with the same legality as "borrowing" your mate's retail Leopard disk. i.e. it's not legal to install on a machine that you don't have a Leopard licence for. SignaturePd > David Kennedy > <davidkennedy@nospamformethanksverymuchyoubastards.invalid> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > your mate's retail Leopard disk. i.e. it's not legal to install on a > machine that you don't have a Leopard licence for. Where does it come from though? Surely Apple don't supply a disc like this? David Kennedy <davidkennedy@nospamformethanksverymuchyoubastards.invalid> wrote: > > I'm after an upgrade from 10.3, to allow sync'ing of my iphone. > > 10.4 seems to go for a premium price at the moment - typically over £40. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > <http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?prodID=1478677&viewSpec=y#productTop> Steal for yourself, don't pay a middleman, Jan |
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