g4 400Mhz... osx 10.3???

[ndmccormack]

I'm just about to upgrade my friends g4 to osx 10.3... is this a wise thing to do?
its only a 400 MHz machine, one of the first g4's but it'll have 768/1024mb RAM... will it run ok?

cheers
Niall

 

[fowler.]

I had a dp 450 with 256mb or ram and 10.3.5. Ran like a champ, albeit a tiny bit slow.

 

[stoid]

We didn't have the money at the high school to buy new computers for an aging lab. So we are running 10.3 on a lab of 450 Mhz G3 computers with no more than 384MB of RAM. A friend of mine was running 10.3 on his old 333Mhz G3 PowerBook before the screen died and he bought a new iBook. I think that it'll work alright. Back-up the HD. If it doesn't run fast enough to be worth the stability and upgrade, go back to 9. But I think that you'll be ok.

 

[Maclarny]

I was running 10.3 on my 400 Mhz G4 PowerMac before I upgraded to my current 1.6 Ghz G5. It's ran just fine. No stability issues and barely any noticeable slowdowns. It should work just fine.

 

[Horrortaxi]

I have a 400mhz Sawtooth and a 450mhz Cube--most of the time you won't even notice that it's 5 years old.