Leopard Spotlight Running Slow on My iBook G4

August 29th, 2009 | by admin |

This was a video I did to showcase just how slow Leopard made my Spotlight run on my iBook G4. Tiger is fast and snappy, but with Leopard, I can type into Spotlight and actually watch my text take *seconds* to catch up. Just one way that Leopard wasn’t a good upgrade for me on my iBook G4. Other systems it’s great, but iBook? Nope, downgraded to Tiger.

Duration : 0:2:4


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  1. 2 Responses to “Leopard Spotlight Running Slow on My iBook G4”

  2. By thejapanesechallenge on Aug 29, 2009 | Reply

    Spotlight does not …
    Spotlight does not behave like this at all in Tiger on the same iBook G4, nor does it behave like this on my MacBook, iMac, or Hack Pro (my Hackintosh).

    I only encounter this problem when running Leopard on an iBook G4. Funny that Spotlight didn’t have any such slow down in Tiger, though I know it has been rewritten for Leopard (or reworked).

  3. By MacGeorge100 on Aug 29, 2009 | Reply

    Spotlight searches …
    Spotlight searches your entire computer after each character,is normal to look slow

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