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atxa
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 Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject: Leopard vs Tiger (Speed) |
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Hello,
Is there a big difference of speed between Tiger and Leopard ?
Cause I'm gonna get a Mac Mini (1.83), before he came with Tiger.
I chose this one cause it's the cheapest, I'll add more ram and I'll change the drive for a 7200 rpm. |
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bikermark
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject: Smartass Alert!!! |
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According to my quick check on wiki, the Leopard tank, made in the 1960's, was rated at 40 mph, while the Tiger I tank was rated at 23 mph. Either one could ram stuff, but I don't know what their rpm's were.
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atxa
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject: Re: Smartass Alert!!! |
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| bikermark wrote: | According to my quick check on wiki, the Leopard tank, made in the 1960's, was rated at 40 mph, while the Tiger I tank was rated at 23 mph. Either one could ram stuff, but I don't know what their rpm's were.
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I'm sorry, but I was talking about Apple Macintosh, OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and OS X 10.5 (Leopard). |
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polarity
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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I'd say go for Leopard. Tiger came out before all new Macs had Intel chips, and was patched for intel compatability, so it's Intel compatability may be a bit slower than Leopard, which has been coded to run better on Intel systems. Can't say I've really noticed a huge speed increase, but a lot of the features of Leopard make working with it a little quicker.
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pakled
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| Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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dangit axta, ya stole my line!...
the Leopard also is more accurate, has a higher sustained rate of fire, and better armor. |
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Jonny
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I find Leopard faster. My macbook came with Tiger. |
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wolphin
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 4:17 am Post subject: |
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Leopard's not necessarily "faster" but it is more stable, so it's better in that way.
Sometimes more stable means faster, too. Finder in tiger used to beachball all the time when it would get stuck doing things. Now Finder in leopard is multi-threaded or something and is a lot faster responding when part of it is stuck. |
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polarity
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 6:11 am Post subject: |
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Leopard more than likely has much better support for multi core processors (multithreading) While Tiger could run on dual G4 systems, thats quite different from the modern Core2Duos in most Macs.
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Tim_Tex
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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I currently have Leopard on my new computer (which I bought just 3 hours ago).
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atxa
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Tim_Tex wrote: | | I currently have Leopard on my new computer (which I bought just 3 hours ago). |
Another new Mac user, Cool !
I'll get mine next week. |
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Jonny
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| wolphin wrote: | Leopard's not necessarily "faster" but it is more stable, so it's better in that way.
Sometimes more stable means faster, too. Finder in tiger used to beachball all the time when it would get stuck doing things. Now Finder in leopard is multi-threaded or something and is a lot faster responding when part of it is stuck. |
Yup! I even noticed when right clicking on a file in Finder, the menu pops up musch faster. |
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z0rp
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| Tim_Tex wrote: | | I currently have Leopard on my new computer (which I bought just 3 hours ago). |
What's your new computer? I'm assuming a mac, though you could be a hacker for all I know and get it the other way as I and plenty others have done.. |
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exiled_sage
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:32 am Post subject: |
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"Faster" is kinda open to interpretation...
Are we talking about the "Feel" of the operating system or the actual percentage of system resources (Ram, Cpu cycles, etc) just the OS by it's self uses? |
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WurdBendur
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:30 am Post subject: |
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Leopard is definitely much slower on my ancient Titanium Powerbook G4 — so slow that I gave up on it and went back to Tiger. I don't know about the Mac Mini, but it'll surely do a better job. Either way, I would wait for Snow Leopard. Apple was apparently worried enough about Leopard that they're releasing the next version as a bug fix only. There will be no significant new features. And it will cost just as much. So if you're going to buy it, wait and buy the fixed version. That is assuming that your Mac Mini has an Intel processor, since Snow Leopard no longer runs on PPC.
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wolphin
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 7:25 am Post subject: |
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"Snow Leopard" or 10.6 will have a lot more than bug fixes, it'll just mostly be under the hood. Lots of developer improvements like OpenCL and other parallel programming infrastructure have a lot of potential. And server types are drooling over full ZFS support.
Plus, I'm sure more features are coming (or else it hopefully won't cost as much as a full upgrade  ) |
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