Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4 on a PowerMac G4 Dual 450  (Read 918 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline ami_junkiTopic starter

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Join Date: Dec 2007
  • Posts: 267
    • Show only replies by ami_junki
    • http://www.cd32gamer.info
Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4 on a PowerMac G4 Dual 450
« on: November 07, 2008, 12:15:19 AM »
Ez all, I was wondering, at the moment my main computer is a PowerMac G4 Dual 450 as a I am a poor {bleep}, it only has 512mb of ram, it is running 10.4.11 at the moment but I was wondering how much of a speed boost would I get running 10.3 and would it be more worthwhile to run it on my machine?

Cheers!

Offline Hattig

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2002
  • Posts: 901
    • Show only replies by Hattig
Re: Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4 on a PowerMac G4 Dual 450
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2008, 12:27:51 AM »
You're running the best option for your machine in my opinion - 10.4 was an improvement over 10.3 in terms of efficiency, although it did add more.

More RAM would be the best option to improve performance. In addition search online for instructions to disable Dashboard.

In addition the forums at MacRumors.com or AppleInsider.com might provide some more in-depth answers to your question...
 

Offline ami_junkiTopic starter

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Join Date: Dec 2007
  • Posts: 267
    • Show only replies by ami_junki
    • http://www.cd32gamer.info
Re: Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4 on a PowerMac G4 Dual 450
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2008, 12:31:23 AM »
Cheers Hattig, will look for disabling dashboard then.

Offline spihunter

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2002
  • Posts: 1501
    • Show only replies by spihunter
Re: Mac OS X 10.3 or 10.4 on a PowerMac G4 Dual 450
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2008, 03:11:14 AM »
Yea, Dashboard is annoying. I'm suprised that there's no easy option to turn it off. I've never used it for anything.