I have two old G4 eMacs, one is 1 GHz, the other is 1.25 GHz. They have been sitting in a closet for a while and I now want to give them away. Before I do, I want to reinstall the system software.
My question is which system would be best to install? They now have 10.5.8 (Leopard) on them. Should I reinstall that, or would an older system be better? I know that an older system can be faster. I do have most systems available on disk. Would there be an advantage to backtrack to Tiger?
Any suggestions?
Also, how about iLife? What would be the best version that will work on a PowerPC?
Thanks!
Dan
My question is which system would be best to install? They now have 10.5.8 (Leopard) on them. Should I reinstall that, or would an older system be better? I know that an older system can be faster. I do have most systems available on disk. Would there be an advantage to backtrack to Tiger?
Any suggestions?
Also, how about iLife? What would be the best version that will work on a PowerPC?
Thanks!
Dan
Nonetheless, I must go against the majority and suggest Tiger. I don't have any real statistics or anything, but when I bought my eMac, it came with Leopard on it. It was slower than I was used to compared to my 1.3 GHz iBook G4 running Tiger at the time, but I attributed that to the 512 MB of RAM it had. Well, I bumped it to 1.5 GB... it was faster, but still slower than my iBook. I wiped Leopard and installed Tiger.. the difference was incredible. If you don't mind having old versions of software, Tiger is much faster and more stable than Leopard in my humble opinion. However, I do understand that a lot of people may need/want the latest application versions possible, so Leopard may indeed be the most viable choice. However, speed only considered - Tiger for sure.