Will I be able to upgrade my powerbook g4 400mhz to Panther with similar performance to jaguar or will it really be time for a new machine if I want to use Panther's new features?
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Min. hardware requirements for Panther??
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Daveman Deluxe
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To make a wild guess based on the improvements featured on Apple's website, I expect you will be fine, but some things will certainly be slow. Most of what's being pushed this time is new features rather than new core technologies (e.g. Darwin, Quartz Extreme, etc.). Some of the features will probably be slow, such as the cube animation when you switch users.
Long story short: I expect you can use it, but I wouldn't be too surprised if you need, say, a 500 MHz G3 or faster.
If they lock out G3s entirely, I will be PISSED because I just got this iBook a year ago.
Long story short: I expect you can use it, but I wouldn't be too surprised if you need, say, a 500 MHz G3 or faster.
If they lock out G3s entirely, I will be PISSED because I just got this iBook a year ago.
iJon
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only sucky thing is you probably wont be able to use expose or fast switching. well you will be able to use them, but they wont do it in a pretty way, it will jsut be quick and non gpu extenstive. i expect more details to come up next month at macworld. oh by they way, they wont lock out g4's, thats just ignorant because they just updated ibooks, lets have some common sense.
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solvs
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I've heard it's supposed to be faster on older machines than Jaguar. Except for the QE stuff for pre-Radeon cards. I would imagine Apple would want everyone who is currently able to use 10.2 to upgrade to 10.3.
If you have an G4 or 400 MHz+ G3, you should be safe.
If you can run 10.2, you should be able to run 10.3.
If you have an G4 or 400 MHz+ G3, you should be safe.
If you can run 10.2, you should be able to run 10.3.