Mac Os 10.5 leopard in a Powermac G4 400 mhz

#1 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 - 13:06

Home today, and wanted to try a leopard install in the Powermac G4.

Already tried a couple of weeks ago, but didn't worked (KP at the installation process)

Today, using Leopard Assist and a new leopard Disk worked at the second attempt (first one i just asked for an upgrade of the system, but the reboot will end in a shutdown... so i erase the disk, and worked) posting right now with the Powermac.

So far i not so slow, a bit slower, but not that much.

#2 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 - 00:32

A dual 550 Digital Audio also runs it reasonably well, but I am surprised that a single 400 manages. Was there a further improvement after Spotlight had finished indexing?

#3 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 - 00:35

heh, I had it on a 400 MHz for a while after my dual 1 GHz CPU upgrade died, and I had to swap back the original 400 MHz CPU. To call it a dog would be improper... Unless that dog was dead. Just unusably slow. (And it had a fast video card and full compliment of RAM.)

#4 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 - 00:58

You'll want as much RAM as you can get and either a Dual CPU or a Core Image capable video card. Optimally, you want both.

#5 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 - 08:11

Was there a further improvement after Spotlight had finished indexing?

Spotlight can be disabled, and probably some utilities.

#6 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 - 11:46

Switching to the 2D dock and turning off the more obvious visual effects helps out too. I've got a pile of links on slimming down Leopard here somewhere.

#7 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 - 18:36

My 350MHz Sawtooth runs Leopard really nicely. Factory Rage 128 Pro and 768MB of RAM.

#8 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 - 21:07

I've got a pile of links on slimming down Leopard here somewhere.

Yes, can be useful.

#9 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 - 05:25

I'd be interested in that list as well, if you could post it.

#10 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 - 11:21

They are all in old bookmark files I'll need to track down.

#11 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 - 20:13

Here is what I had in my old booksmarks, YMMV:

http://web.archive.org/web/20120808030015/http://www.worthlessgenius.com/2009/08/18/how-to-speed-up-your-powerpc-mac/

http://www.interrupt19.com/2008/09/04/performance-speed-tweaks-to-get-more-out-of-leopard/

http://www.imafish.co.uk/articles/52-ways-speed-os-x

http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-system-mac-software/277846-universalaccessapp.html

http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=83269

http://lowendmac.com/eubanks/07/0312.html

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050504012104186

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050723123302403

http://web.archive.org/web/20100204021840/http://www.macmod.com/software-mods/mac-os/1571-leopard-on-pre-pci

http://beautifulpixels.com/macintosh/replacement-docks-mac/

That is what was tagged as Mac OS X anyway. They should be mostly Tiger/Leopard relevant.