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Problem finding early versions of OS X (10.0)

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farmermac

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Jul 23, 2009
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I am having a hard time finding older versions of OS X. Specifically, Cheetah (10.0). I have an old ibook G3 and would like to try it and see wether it'll run a little better then with OS 9.

Any tips? Willing to pay for a legal license of course but would prefer not to have to wait and go through Ebay.
 
Intell

Intell

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Jan 24, 2010
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10.0, 10.1, and 10.2 all run very, very slowly. I'd suggest 10.3, it the fastest for G3 computers.
 
Hrududu

Hrududu

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Jul 25, 2008
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I can tell you right now Mac OS 9 is going to run better. I may be off here, but as I recall it wasn't until 10.2 that OS X was the default OS on new computers from Apple. They came with both OS 9 and X and 9 was actually the default boot OS. In other words, early versions of OS X were not very good, and actually lost some functionality from OS 9. Not to mention application support for such old versions of X isn't going to be much better than it will be for OS 9 at this point, I would really suggest staying away from it unless you go up to 10.3 or better.
 
mr.steevo

mr.steevo

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Jul 21, 2004
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I had reasonable performance with 10.3 (Panther) on a first generation iBook. It was certainly more usable than OS9 was. No video though.

10.2 was dog slow. Terrible on the iBook.
 
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