I have a powerbook g4 867Mhz 256MB which runs OS X 10.2.8. I'm thinking of upgrading to 10.3 or 10.4 to be able to install OpenOffice and get the wireless connecting to my WPA network.
Can anybody tell me if this will make the laptop slower, or how much slower?
2007-10-09 02:48:48 · 7 answers · asked by Oliphant 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Max the RAM and go to 10.4. Leopard may not run very well on 867Mhz, it's only just above the minimum spec.
It will cost about £100 to put 1GB in it.
2007-10-09 03:15:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
properly i have had a Macbook professional for over a 365 days and characteristic yet to improve to Leopard. i'm no longer certain how a lot speedier this is, besides the undeniable fact that it does have diverse effective advantageous aspects that are not latest in OSX Tiger. You element out having a Dell Inspirion B120, yet favor to improve its OS to Leopard(?). i understand its technically plausible to position in Mac OS on a "computing gadget," besides the undeniable fact that it might want to probable reason extra frustration than any absolutely earnings (Mac OS might want to be utilizing a marginally distinct keyboard format than your Dell might want to have, driver topics, and so on) besides the undeniable fact that, in case you meant upgrading your Dell (which may have contain residing house windows XP SP2) now, i does no longer propose upgrading it to residing house windows Vista. you'll really adventure extra slowdown then making it any speedier as Vista makes use of up diverse RAM and being inefficient in extremely some procedures.
2016-10-20 06:10:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
256 mb of ram is what is slowing you down. Get it up to 1 gb of ram before you uprgrade to 10.4 or 10.5. You really, really need the ram.
2007-10-09 02:57:44 · answer #3 · answered by Kahless 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2014-07-27 06:28:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes with 256 ram
2007-10-09 02:58:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, in fact it will probably make your PC faster.
But, you may want to wait for Leopard (10.5), due out in a few weeks.
2007-10-09 02:53:41 · answer #6 · answered by ELfaGeek 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Add ram. 256MB will strangle *any* version of OS X.
2007-10-09 02:55:45 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋