Ti 1Ghz: Tiger or Leopard
I'm using a Tibook 1Ghz from work (because no one else is and that means I don't have to buy my own 
) This thing has 1 GB RAM and Radeon 9000 graphics. I put Leopard on for testing since I'm sure our users will be adopting it sooner or later. Anyway, it runs decent but I've never worked with this particular machine before either. I don't really know how the speed compares to Tiger. Previous updates of 10.2 through 10.4 Tiger had improved code, especially in the graphics subsystem, that improved performance on all hardware, including older machines. But is this true of Leopard? Would I be better off going back to Tiger on this thing? I want the best performance. I don't see any must-have features in Leopard that I would miss going back to Tiger.
) This thing has 1 GB RAM and Radeon 9000 graphics. I put Leopard on for testing since I'm sure our users will be adopting it sooner or later. Anyway, it runs decent but I've never worked with this particular machine before either. I don't really know how the speed compares to Tiger. Previous updates of 10.2 through 10.4 Tiger had improved code, especially in the graphics subsystem, that improved performance on all hardware, including older machines. But is this true of Leopard? Would I be better off going back to Tiger on this thing? I want the best performance. I don't see any must-have features in Leopard that I would miss going back to Tiger.
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As anecdotal evidence - I did a clean install of Leopard on my 1.5GHz PowerBook G4, and it is now noticeably faster as a result. In particular, the Finder, UI responsiveness, Spotlight, working with networked volumes, launching apps and booting. Quake 3 also seems to run a bit faster, for what it's worth.
I'm using a Tibook 1Ghz from work (because no one else is and that means I don't have to buy my own
1 GB of memory is just the absolute minimum if you want a fluid Leopard system, and this without heavy load. I ran recently a long code compilation in a Macbook with 1 GB and OS X ate everything. The system paged out hard (3 GB of virtual memory files in /var/vm
For your system I think you are better off with Panther. It is less demanding and quite satisfactory on a 1 GHz G4 with this amount of RAM. It does not have Tiger's and Leopard's Dashboard but it is the first OS X version with Exposé. Your only problem would be some software compatibility (not everyone offers today the Panther version of his software), in which case Tiger is the way to go.
The overall consensus is that Leopard performs better than Tiger.
As anecdotal evidence - I did a clean install of Leopard on my 1.5GHz PowerBook G4, and it is now noticeably faster as a result. In particular, the Finder, UI responsiveness, Spotlight, working with networked volumes, launching apps and booting. Quake 3 also seems to run a bit faster, for what it's worth.
I have got to be honest here. On Intel I think Leopard may run better than Tiger, but on PPC, Leopard runs just as fast in some areas, but in some others it is slower and there are many issues that don't seem to work quite right.
I am running a G4 1.67 GHZ with 2GB of RAM and 128 MB VRAM.
I am running Leopard with a clean install and then updated to 10.5.1. Leopard is overall slower than Tiger, but the features it adds are too good to go back.
some examples of slowness are secure erase (which is very slow and sometimes hangs and does not work at all), the dock animations (slight, but noticeable at least to me - the graphics can be almost imperceptibly jittery), activating Menus and Finder launches.
some items that are actually faster are shutdown and startup as well as the recovering disk space routine if you have File Vault enabled, Safari, iCal, Addrress Book, and Mail.
In overall usage, they come out about the same, but I definitely would say Tiger "seemed" faster. however, with all of the features Leopard adds, I wouldn't go back.
On a TI 1 GHZ, Tiger would definitely be faster, but I would suggest leopard as it would definitely be fast enough for anything and give you a more robust OS.
I'm using a Tibook 1Ghz from work (because no one else is and that means I don't have to buy my own
I have an identical machine - although I uses it less now than I once did.
Short story - use Leopard.
There's no significant performance difference. In fact some things seem a lot faster. There's enough extra oomph in the OS to make it worth upgrading. I would recommend 1GB of memory.
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I have an identical machine - although I uses it less now than I once did.
Short story - use Leopard.
I concur.
They wouldn't have the slightest idea how to do a clean install and get everything back in there so that won't happen.