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10.3: Speed, compatibility for G4 Towers in production?
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We have a few towers at work and would like to know if there are any speed increases, and by what order.
Do any major design/video apps (MX, MX2004, Adobe, FCP) break with this upgrade?
We'll likely not deploy Panther until it's proven stable and won't hinder us. The correct solution, would of course, be to wait. Performance gains are really nice though.
We have a few dual-450 and dual-500 machines, as well as a dual-1.25 "Mirror Drive".
Thoughts?
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Anyone bite the bullet? Stick their collective necks out? Gettin' all crazy with a .0 release?
In a production environment? I guess that's good news; people are smart about it!
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The performance gains that I see are mostly attributed to the GUI. I have not seen any increase in networking throughput for example.
However, some individual applications, such as Preview and Apple Help Center have greatly increased performance.
Some applications seem to launch quicker, which may be from increased caching in the system.
Mounting network drives is definitely quicker too.
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I don't know about the G4 Desktops but I imagine they run quite a bit faster considering the single processor G4 Titanium (500Mhz) that my Dad has felt snappier with install of 7B7x Panther.
I'd suggest waiting though, you never know what problems might crop up.
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Powerbook 15.2" G4 1.5Ghz
1GB RAM, 80GB 5400rpm
4GB iPod Mini, Rev 2, Green
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Ah, yes indeed. I just reminded myself that none of our machines (except for my spankin' new PowerBook) have the necessary video cards, i.e., 16MB VRAM minimum. Good thing I checked. I think we'd be screwed...do you think Quartz Extreme would make it worse with our stock 8MB cards?
Originally posted by docholiday:
I don't know about the G4 Desktops but I imagine they run quite a bit faster considering the single processor G4 Titanium (500Mhz) that my Dad has felt snappier with install of 7B7x Panther.
I'd suggest waiting though, you never know what problems might crop up.
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