[Lt Major Burns]

512mb ram has been mentioned on these forums to a great degree to just be too little to run tiger effectively. it's just the minimum, and that's that.

it's just enough to run the os, and possibly one or two other applications, if they're not too ram hungry. This is due to Tiger having dashboard (a result of the new Core Image innards), and it's spotlight index, both things that linux doesn't burden itself with, and both ram hungry tasks.

iPhoto is large imagery, so is inherently ram-hungry. 1gb is the minimum i would say for a happy user experience of both Tiger and of iPhoto. even with this in mind, i noticed that with 1gb, it's a case of photoshop+illustrator open, or iPhoto, not both. with 2gb, both run happily.

i Find OSX on my mac to very snappy, and it's nearly 2 years old. window resizing is great, with the corner always being under the cursor. and saying that it's slower than os 9 isn't really saying much. it's hardly intensive to resize a grey oblong now is it? and i know which one i prefer: smooth, dynamic, intuitive resizing window contents. i'd like to see xp match os x drawing ability. minimise a window and watch all the icons drawing themselves back on the desktop!