iLabmAn

This may have been discussed before....

Is OSX worth the while on a PowerMac G3? More specifically:

Blue and White 400MHZ G3 with 512MG of ram

iMac 333MHZ with 256MG of ram

Thanks.

Digital_Gary

The B&W will be fine. I'd toss some more ram at the iMac if you can. It will run but it will be slow.

[ June 18, 2004, 12:32 PM: Message edited by: Digital_Gary ]

capitalK

I found that Panther sped up my B&W quite a bit over Jaguar. Still not as slick as OS 9 is, but IMO Panther is much nicer.

I'd do it. But load up the RAM.

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I'm running Panther v10.3.4 on my iMac DV 400 w/768 MB of RAM and it runs pretty well for the most part.

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iLabmAn

I bumped the RAM up from 288MB to 416MB....and noticed a considerable increase in speed and stability. Boot time was also faster.

Compared to my 466MHZ G4 Digital Audio at my desk (I am using the Blue and White here!), it seems about the same in terms of speed. However, I have not experimented using many apps.

I have some 128MB chips floating around. I will install and see how things go.

My plan was to upgrade this machine and then sell it. Yet, I may end up keeping it. We'll see.

PosterBoy

On my iBook the UI responsiveness increased by about 55% -- not insignificant, especially since my iBook doesn't have a video card that can't power QE.

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Macaholic

Panther's good for older machines -- but you need 512MB RAM as a safe cruising capacity.

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Clockwork

I run it fine on my machine. I should get more memory though. I use thousands of colours and 800 res. I dont run any heavy programs though.

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Heart

Changing the colours to thousands is an old OS 9 trick and I have been using it in OS X Panther the last couple of weeks.

Digital Gary has got the basics down.

Currently I have one G3 400 running Panther 512MB.
I see a small lag compaired to a G3 500 with 1GB.

duosonic

Running Panther on an imac 400DV with 512 RAM - it's just fine, thank you very much - I'm sure if I sat at one of the newer highspeed machines I wouldn't think mine is very fast, but until I can afford to buy something new, I'm quite satisfied. And I still run several apps in Classic - Quark 4.1, Photoshop, Illustrator (can't afford upgrades all at once) - the only one that gives me problems is Office 98 (I know, I know...) - I use TextEdit as much as possible, & it's smooth although limited.

Memory, Memory, Memory - install as much as you can possibly afford.

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