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MacHappytjg

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is anyone using a emac with leopard cause i want to know how much ram would be suitable for an emac to run leopard with?
 

bennypod

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I have leopard running on an eMac (1gb of ram). Runs just fine but is slow compared to my iMac.
 

djc6

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I have leopard running on an eMac (1gb of ram). Runs just fine but is slow compared to my iMac.

But is the eMac+Leopard slower than when it was (presumably) running Tiger?

I have a 1Ghz eMac w/1GB of RAM. The only reason I'm considering Leopard is for Time machine, but if it means the eMac will be noticeably slower than it is now with Tiger, I'll find another way of backing it up.
 

Jiff Lemon

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1.25 ghz emac with 1gb of ram.

Made the leap to leopard and was a little dissapointed. Definately runs slower and don't get me started on Air disk support... :mad:

Love the OS, just wish I'd got a mini mac to run it on!
 

Le Big Mac

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I have a 1Ghz eMac w/1GB of RAM. The only reason I'm considering Leopard is for Time machine, but if it means the eMac will be noticeably slower than it is now with Tiger, I'll find another way of backing it up.

Put Leopard on a 1Ghz iMac w/1 GB. Seems about the same speed as Tiger, which was far from blazing but certainly serviceable. If anything it's a bit faster and hangs less with multiple apps open.
 

MacHappytjg

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But is the eMac+Leopard slower than when it was (presumably) running Tiger?

I have a 1Ghz eMac w/1GB of RAM. The only reason I'm considering Leopard is for Time machine, but if it means the eMac will be noticeably slower than it is now with Tiger, I'll find another way of backing it up.

i think time machine is stupid im saying it runs quite fast with leopard but iim asking is it workth upgrading the ram
 

trip1ex

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I have an Emac with 640gb ram and 1ghz cpu. Runs fine. For surfing it seems just as fast as my aluminum iMac.

1gb ram can't hurt, but I wouldn't expect miracles. Best to keep few things open on an eMac.
 

ryannel2003

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At one point I had Leopard running on my 1.25GHz eMac w/ 768MB of RAM and it was slow. The difference of speed between Leopard and Tiger was pretty dramatic. Eventually I re-installed Tiger and everything was good again.

If I were you, i'd stick with Tiger. It runs much better on G4 systems.
 

11800506

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Is there any posibility to install 2gb Ram (1gb + 1Ggb of Pc2700 DDR333 or Pc3200 DD400) on emac to run leopard ?

I've read somewhere it can be installed up to 2gb but Apple didn't mentioned on the user manual.

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/emac/stats/emac_1.25.html

Certain systems (I believe the 1.25 and 1.42 Ghz eMacs) unofficially support 2 GBs of RAM. It has been reported that these systems recognize both sticks on various websites (just search google).
 

iBad

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Aug 18, 2008
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So its gone to works right ?

Yes sure the emac system info will be shown info window "2Gb Ram", but is it real that 2GB is running ?

because when i google arround that someone telling that eMac memory ceiling is only at 1Gb so putting 2Gb to the system is useless. :(
 

MacHappytjg

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So its gone to works right ?

Yes sure the emac system info will be shown info window "2Gb Ram", but is it real that 2GB is running ?

because when i google arround that someone telling that eMac memory ceiling is only at 1Gb so putting 2Gb to the system is useless. :(

n u can put 2gb in
 

andiwm2003

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Mar 29, 2004
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emac 1.25 GHz with 1.25 GB Ram and 250 GB raptor HD works fine with leopard. it's actually quite fast. it shows 1.25GB ram and system monitor shows usage of more than 1 GB ram.
 

clinetech

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Oh man...I wanted Leopard!

At one point I had Leopard running on my 1.25GHz eMac w/ 768MB of RAM and it was slow. The difference of speed between Leopard and Tiger was pretty dramatic. Eventually I re-installed Tiger and everything was good again.

If I were you, i'd stick with Tiger. It runs much better on G4 systems.

I was hoping to have Leopard on my eMac G4 coming soon. It's a 1.25GHz w/512MB, Combo drive and 512MB of RAM. Is it unusable, or just slow? Can you compare it to like "running a iMac tray loader with Tiger" or something like that? :apple:'s Rock!
 

andiwm2003

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Mar 29, 2004
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I was hoping to have Leopard on my eMac G4 coming soon. It's a 1.25GHz w/512MB, Combo drive and 512MB of RAM. Is it unusable, or just slow? Can you compare it to like "running a iMac tray loader with Tiger" or something like that? :apple:'s Rock!

i run leopard on an emac 1.25GHz with 1.25GB ram and i put a 250GB HD in.

runs really well for MS Office, internet, itunes, ilife, photoshop elements.

just buy that extra GB of ram, you need it.

btw: leopard runs as fast as tiger for me.
 
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