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12 Replies Last post: May 27, 2005 8:41 AM by kerby74

jargr

162 posts since
Mar 20, 2001

May 20, 2005 11:59 AM

Putting a Tiger in your tank (10.4 on a portable)

Well, folks, it's been out for almost a month. I just wanted to touch bases with folks here about your experiences with 10.4 "Tiger" on your laptop, be it a new Aluminum PowerBook to your old black PowerPC portable (or toilet seat iBook, for that matter). I'd also like to hear about the apprehension of those who haven't upgraded yet.

Consider this a good opportunity to reintroduce yourself to Portables and Handhelds ...

griffman

8,110 posts since
Jan 9, 2001

1. May 20, 2005 2:56 PM

in response to: jargr

Re: Putting a Tiger in your tank (10.4 on a portable)

12" PB G4, rock solid, speedy. Runs great, looks great.

-rob.

Insanity

71 posts since
Jul 24, 2004

2. May 21, 2005 7:43 AM

in response to: jargr

Re: Putting a Tiger in your tank (10.4 on a portab

Bought Tiger with Education discount, I even grabbed a stick of one gig!!

I don't know if its a placebo effect, but tiger seems to run faster. Simply amazing, Apple with Tiger was able yet again to increase my love for their products.
My 12 inch powerbook looks brand new!! complete face lift!

It does feel wierd to have such a powerfull OS in such a small machine!!

I recommended it, already got one guy at my school to get Tiger after he played around it on my machine.

goup

EDIT: I forgot to mention how Tiger was sooooo easy to install, I wish windows had 1/10th of Tiger's simpleness.

drmbb

2,353 posts since
Jun 14, 2001

3. May 21, 2005 5:48 AM

in response to: jargr

Re: Putting a Tiger in your tank (10.4 on a portable)

I ran a simple upgrade on top of 10.3.9 on my powerbook, and have had no problems at all other than the standard broken apps (Norton AV, Cisco VPN, Retrsopect). But all of those are rapidly getting up to speed with Tiger by now.

I also use the statistical package R and Bioconductor tools, but even those have made it to Tiger since about a week ago.

Tiger does seem faster - bootup is quicker, and I think Tiger is making better use of my 128MB of video RAM too (The Gimp and Photoshop, iPhoto - all seem to flow more smoothly in terms of display rendering). I know the new gcc is faster at compiling, since I had to recompile a number of FINK packages and those processes did not take as long to complete as they had under Panther.

--

pdrayton

1,821 posts since
Sep 19, 2003

4. May 21, 2005 6:26 AM

in response to: jargr

Re: Putting a Tiger in your tank (10.4 on a portable)

Tiger running flawlessly... and so much faster than Panther.

Did the Archive & Install... and am currently deleting my Previous System folder.

macnuke

6,672 posts since
Mar 5, 2004

5. May 21, 2005 6:48 AM

in response to: jargr

Re: Putting a Tiger in your tank (10.4 on a portable)

seem to be plenty of us that went for portability.
12" al PB 1.5g ... Tiger in it, faster all around. nary a problem.

m

RonAnnArbor

577 posts since
Sep 20, 2003

6. May 21, 2005 7:41 AM

in response to: macnuke

Re: Putting a Tiger in your tank (10.4 on a portable)

Upgraded on day one, and could'nt live without it...

whazzup

237 posts since
Feb 18, 2001

7. May 21, 2005 10:41 AM

in response to: RonAnnArbor

Re: Putting a Tiger in your tank (10.4 on a portable)

Powerbook 667 (non-DVI), 1 gig RAM, 80GB HDD. Anyone try on this machine? How is it working? Is it wirth the upgrade? Faster? Slower? Thanks.

e-malen

157 posts since
May 21, 2001

8. May 21, 2005 2:21 PM

in response to: whazzup

Re: Putting a Tiger in your tank (10.4 on a portable)

I find Tiger slower on my PB - 1.25ghz, 512 RAM. i'm condering getting more RAM... i get the spinning ball too much.

Misha3

20 posts since
Oct 19, 2003

9. May 22, 2005 7:17 PM

in response to: jargr

Re: Putting a Tiger in your tank (10.4 on a portable)

Upgraded (on top of 10.3.9) the G4 iBook after removing "Virex" as suggested by others.
No problems so far!!

jargr

162 posts since
Mar 20, 2001

10. May 23, 2005 5:29 PM

in response to: jargr

Re: Putting a Tiger in your tank (10.4 on a portable)

To alleviate worries about older machines ... I've upgraded the OS of a 500MHz PowerBook G4 with 512MB RAM to OS X 10.4. The only problem I've had was with Mail, which would provide me with a prolonged view of the spinning beach ball when I'd open it. It would eventually open just fine. This problem was actually fixed (at least it seems to be after one day's use) by installing the 10.4.1 updater (free at the Apple website).

Earthling7

530 posts since
Jun 17, 2004

11. May 26, 2005 1:36 PM

in response to: jargr

Re: Putting a Tiger in your tank (10.4 on a portable)

12" 1.5GHz PB, still running 10.3.9

I'm working on a couple of important projects and won't be upgrading until I have the time to spend a couple of days on it (including post-installation tweaks). I am also planning to get a large external hard drive for backups, just in case.

I have it though and I installed it on my aging Quicksilver (1x 800MHz) and it runs beautifully. I can't wait to see it on the Powerbook, but I'll have to.

kerby74

379 posts since
Jul 20, 2004

12. May 27, 2005 8:41 AM

in response to: Earthling7

Re: Putting a Tiger in your tank (10.4 on a portable)

Upgraded from 10.3.9 on an iBook that was only a couple months old. Had several problems within days that I just could not seem to trouble-shoot. Re-installed using a clean (erase and install) method and everything near perfect now. I say near because Mail 2 seems to be quite buggy still.
Spotlight was alone worth the cost of Tiger, this is the greatest feature I have ever had on a computer.

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