Tiger or Panther on Power Mac G4/466 [Archive]

tsk

Sep 2, 2005, 05:32 PM

I've gotten a Power Mac G4/466 and I'm trying to figure out whether I should put Panther or Tiger on this system. It has 768MB RAM (I might even be able to scrape up another 256MB to make it a full GB) and a 30GB hard disk. Any opinions on which way I should go?

Thanks.

G5Unit

Sep 2, 2005, 05:42 PM

I woulkd use Panther. I miight work better but ima not sure.

roglisk

Sep 2, 2005, 05:58 PM

I had an old 450 sawtooth with a gig of Ram and tiger ran faster than panther - for me at least. I had the same ol' rage pro in there also.

RGunner

Sep 2, 2005, 06:10 PM

Tiger on that one.

dsharits

Sep 2, 2005, 06:21 PM

Tiger on that one.
Absolutely, Tiger. It runs great on my B&W G4 500, so the extra bus speed and overall improvements on the Digital Audio, it will run like a champ.

douglas

Sep 2, 2005, 06:27 PM

I'm in the same boat, with a G4 350mz, 640mb RAM, Radeon 7000 GPU. I upgraded to Tiger recently from OS9 and found the machine very slow, with the odd crash. Then I installed Panther on the advice of a service tech, which seems to run equally slowly (lots of beachballs, slow opening pdf's, etc.). I may switch back to Tiger, or just buy a new mini.

tsk

Sep 2, 2005, 06:49 PM

Ok then. If it's Tiger, the next question is: can I install a DVD drive in it? Or is there something special that needs to be done? I tried putting in a generic DVD burner and it spit out the DVD and didn't seem to want to boot. Or do I need to trade in the DVD copy of Tiger for CDs?

dsharits

Sep 2, 2005, 07:34 PM

Ok then. If it's Tiger, the next question is: can I install a DVD drive in it? Or is there something special that needs to be done? I tried putting in a generic DVD burner and it spit out the DVD and didn't seem to want to boot. Or do I need to trade in the DVD copy of Tiger for CDs?
You can install a DVD drive in it with no problem. I highly recommend the Pioneer DVR-109, as it works perfectly with Tiger.

solvs

Sep 2, 2005, 09:01 PM

Ok then. If it's Tiger, the next question is: can I install a DVD drive in it? Or is there something special that needs to be done? I tried putting in a generic DVD burner and it spit out the DVD and didn't seem to want to boot. Or do I need to trade in the DVD copy of Tiger for CDs?
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