Advice on upgrade, please

[nroose]

I have an old G4 iMac.

The currently installed OS is Mac OS X 10.2.8 (6R73).

It has an 800 mhz processor and 256 MB RAM.

I think from reading on Apple's web site that this machine is capable of handling Tiger. Should I upgrade? Would it be better to go to Panther? Is that available? Where?

Will it make the machine faster or slower?

I gather from the Apple on-line store that I can only do the upgrade by buying the dvd. Is it possible to download?

Are there any issues that I should be aware of before upgrading? Are there things that work now that will not work after the upgrade?

Thanks!!!

 

[72930]

1. It is not possible to download...
2. I do not reccomend Tiger, it is quite slow on a Core Solo mini with 512MB RAM

 

[CEAbiscuit]

Bump your Ram up a bunch (not sure what the max is, but it will sure help either way)

You'd be amazed at how well you machine will still perform.

 

[Zwhaler]

Never with that amount of RAM, go for Panther, it will run much nicer than tiger will.