Will 10.4.x be supported by Mac Pros after Leopard?
After Leopard comes out in October or whatever... do you think the Mac Pro models will still support 10.4.x? I like the idea of a new OS but 10.4.x seems so reliable and 10.5 looks like it is going to just bog down that hardware with way to many features. And I would love to just run 10.4.x on a new one after I get one in December. But I hope I can run 10.4.x. Probably not though just as how it has been in the past for Apple. Does anyone know of times you could run an older OS on a machine than the one it came with?
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Nothing to worry about
Future models would require that OS X have a string representing these future models being supported in a future Tiger update to guarantee they work.
each consecutive release of OS X has been faster than it's predecessor, despite having more features.
Nothing to worry about
10.3 Panther was a hell of a lot slower than 10.2 Jaguar. But I agree that 10.4 Tiger is the fastest revision so far...
10.3 Panther was a hell of a lot slower than 10.2 Jaguar. But I agree that 10.4 Tiger is the fastest revision so far...
I disagree. My recollection is that Jaguar was very sluggish and unresponsive but Panther was substantially more snappy.
I agree that Leopard, when fully released, anyway, will be faster AND more useful than Tiger. I had the WWDC '07 release installed on my PowerBook for a while, and while it ran well (aside from the fact that I needed to install via a machine with a faster DVD drive), the crash report process kept running at 90% of my meager CPU, causing my fans to run full blast if doing any more than idling. Not to mention, FileMaker Pro 6 didn't agree with it, and I need that for work, so I had to downgrade.
...I miss Stacks!
I wont be going to Leopard at least until 10.5.1 so they can work some bugs out / update drivers etc for Leopard.