Anybody running Leopard on a G4 iBook?

[pinkoos]

I'm considering trying to find a cheap G4 iBook to use for Leopard screen sharing, web and email.

Just trying to find out how sluggish Leopard is on one of those.

Thanks.

[mjgkramer]

I am and the performance is not noticeably different from 10.4. Do it.

[pinkoos]

[quote mjgkramer]I am and the performance is not noticeably different from 10.4. Do it.
What's your processor speed and RAM on the iBook?

Thanks.

[Zoidberg]

Got our babysitter's iBook on Leopard and, save for the lack of eye candy effects, it runs fine, as long as it has enough RAM.

(FWIW, hers is a 1GHz and has a gig of RAM, if I remember correctly.)

[StingMe]

Got one G4 iBook left...and a MacBook too: http://stingme.com/sale/

I personally haven't tested Leopard on these machines yet but plan to this weekend. The iBook meets Leopards min processor requirements so with enough RAM it should be just fine. Stay tuned!

[PizzaGod]

I was running it on mine before I got my MacBook. No biggie-I'm also running it on my G4 IMac

[edgarbc1]

1.0 ghz ibook g4
and i can say Tiger is "faster" than Leopard
but the features of Leopard make it worth the upgrade.

[MartyStickle]

my ibook g4 running 1.2 runs fine with Leopard.

[mjgkramer]

[quote pinkoos][quote mjgkramer]I am and the performance is not noticeably different from 10.4. Do it.
What's your processor speed and RAM on the iBook?

Thanks.
Sorry for the late reply. Had some other demands on my time today.

My iBook has a 933 MHz G4 CPU and 640 MB RAM. Performance under Leopard is quite acceptable as I mentioned before. Good enough that I let my wife have the Intel iBook that I bought and kept the G4.

[silvarios]

Running Leopard on my personal bargain of the year '$93 14" G4 iBook'. Replaced the dead heard drive with a nice new 160GB Western Digital (add $75 to that $93 figure I first stated). When I upgraded my mom's 12" iBook G4 to 1.5GB RAM, I stole her old 512MB module.

My iBook G4's current specs:
1.33GHz
768MB RAM
160GB Hard drive
Combo Drive

Running Mac OS 10.5.2. Seems about as responsive as Tiger. A little sluggish occasionally, but not bad. I'm a little wary that Leopard has introduced new Airport bugs, but I can't quite pinpoint my occasionally buggy wireless issues.

My uses? Glad you asked. iCab 4.1.1 (web), Adium (chat), webmail, QuickTime Player (easier for listening to a single podcast than with iTunes), and TextEdit. I use Dashboard, but only keep two widgets running (weather and calendar). Love Exposé which I quickly activate with three of the four hotcorners. Spaces is still invaluable, but I only keep two virtual desktops on my old iBook (fourth hotcorner activates Spaces).


Nathan