binary packages for 10.5.8

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Wed Jan 17 17:35:12 UTC 2018



On 17/01/18 17:31, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2018, at 10:59, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> 
>> However 10.5 runs considerably faster on 32bit macs.s and those who cannot take 4GB of RAM. My own experience
> 
> I see; I hadn't heard that feedback before. According to Apple, 10.6 focused not on new features but on performance, so it should be faster than 10.5.

Personally, without proper benchmarking proving such claims, I would 
take them with a decent pinch of salt. Otherwise it is just based on 
user perceptions, which are known not to be reliable...

> 
>> 10.5 is pretty speedy and nice on my MacBook, Safari is old,, so in any case you will be running some alternative browser which is hopefully more up to date
> 
> TenFourFox.
> 


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