Ableton Forum

I have leopard installed on my G5 quad 2.5 but thinking to go back to tiger ,
i just read some old infos that PPC runs better on tiger .

I did LIVE 8.2.2 test :

G5 Quad 2.5, 4.5 GB Ram,Internal soundcard ,caviar black 7200rpm 1TB jumper set on 1.5 sata ,OSX Leopard 10.5.8.

512 samples,8 tracks - 33 % cpu usage
128 samples,8 track - 39 % cpu

Anybody with some help ?

Thanks

Leopard is faster all-around on a beefy G5 like yours, however Tiger is less demanding. I'm sure if you turn off some of the visual and other tweaks in Leopard, it'll run Tiger-fast without sacrificing all the benefits of Leopard or fully reverting to the long-in-the-tooth Tiger.