I like the fact I can check my s a mobile e-mail with safari now, and could not do so with Tiger at all. On Aug 21, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote:
> > 1. You should be able to do this as once you enter Firewire Target > disk Mode, the e-mac is just a firewire disk and both machines are PPC > G4's or so I would expect if the ibook is a white one. > > In terms of Tiger vs Leopard, I find Leopard not only to be > significantly more visually friendly to the user, but also faster for > most applications. I have a pair of e-macs that I upgraded to Leopard > in the last 6 months and I am soo much happier. When going to some > websites especially ones with significant javascript, the page loads > can still take 4-5 times longer then on the intel based machines I > used, but they are twice as fast as under tiger. > > Jon > > On Aug 21, 2009, at 1:55 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: > >> >> Hey and thanks for the reply. >> Both machines are tiger machines - I use the emac for audio and not >> much else so I figgured that i'd opt for a faster os with less >> features since I wouldn't be using many of the features in leopard - >> its a g4 1.42. >> The harddrive is a 80gb soon to be replaced with a nice and fast 250 >> 7200rpm. >> >> On 21/08/2009, Daniel Crone <quirky.wiz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I doubt you could boot using a Tiger machine. Leopard was written >>> for >>> the Intel chip set. >>> Also, how large is the hard drive of the emac? >>> On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:13 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hey all. >>>> >>>> I have a ibook with no harddrive in it. Before I delv into its >>>> internals I want to make sure that all the existing parts have no >>>> strange faults that would render the system unusable when it has a >>>> harddrive in it. I'd like to be able to connect the ibook to my >>>> emac >>>> and use the tiger install on the emac to boot the ibook but i'm >>>> getting conflicting messages about if this can be done or not. >>>> >>>> I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that has done this >>>> before - >>>> what exactly did you do? did osx find sound drivers? >>>> >>>> Fyi, I did try connecting a drive via usb and installing tiger on >>>> it >>>> but it appears that osx can only boot from firewire volumes. >>>> >>>> Thanks for reading, BEN. >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Kind regards, BEN. >> >> email: bmustillr...@gmail.com >> msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com >> web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
