Mac OS X Tiger Or Leopard On My Power Mac G4 MDD?

[techgp]

I would like to know if Mac OS X Tiger or Leopard would be better on my Power Mac G4 MDD.

It's specs are as follows:

1.25GHz Power PC G4 processor
1.5GBs or RAM
100GB hard drive

Thanks for your help!

 

[lannister80]

Leopard. I run that on a very similarly-configured MDD and it works great. Especially if you have a video card that supports Core Video (ATI 9800).

 

[techgp]

Do you know where I can get an ATI Radeon 9800?

 

[dpaanlka]

Leopard for sure. It's like 80,000 times better from a usability standpoint. Not like the difference between Leopard and Snow Leopard.

 

[chrismacguy]

*adds voice to Leopard group*. I run Mac OS X 10.5.8 on my G4/450 (only CPU is stock). It actually works really quite well

 

[dazey]

Another option in the video cards is to get a 9600 out of a G5. These were often upgraded so you can get the cards cheap. If it came out of a G5 you have to cut or cover a few of the contacts (have a google) but there was a g4/g5 aftermarket one as well. The 9600 is not as powerful as the 9800 but is also an air-cooled and lower power unit and does meet the leopard core requirement.

 

[kernkraft]

I'm sorry to disagree with the others, but unless you use the new features in Leopard (which I still don't), what's the point of making things slower? Tiger - in my opinion - is by far, the most stable and efficient OS that you can have on that machine.

No Spaces and Time Machine, but do you really need them? I wish SL would be more like Tiger!

 

[lannister80]

I'm sorry to disagree with the others, but unless you use the new features in Leopard (which I still don't), what's the point of making things slower? Tiger - in my opinion - is by far, the most stable and efficient OS that you can have on that machine.

No Spaces and Time Machine, but do you really need them? I wish SL would be more like Tiger!

Leopard ran "snappier" than Tiger on my MDD. Just like every other iteration of OS X (more recent = faster).

 

[steveca]

got a single 1.25 Ghz MDD with 1.5GB RAM 80GB HDD and it currently runs Tiger. I will update it to Leopard soon so will keep you updated soon enough