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[robinduncan]

Hi I'm just buying some stuff to upgrade my prehistoric (almost) iMac... will iLife 4 run with Jaguar easily enough?
cheers,
Robin

 

[Soulstorm]

no. You will need to upgrade your system. System 10.3 (and 10.4) are much faster on the same hardware than 10.2. They will be much faster for you, too. My conclusions are made using 10.2, 10.3 and later 10.4 on a Mac G3 350 MHz with DVD ROM drive.

 

[robinduncan]

no. You will need to upgrade your system. System 10.3 (and 10.4) are much faster on the same hardware than 10.2. They will be much faster for you, too. My conclusions are made using 10.2, 10.3 and later 10.4 on a Mac G3 350 MHz with DVD ROM drive.

mmm... interesting. Been looking on ebay to find Panther or Tiger.

Would an install DVD, OSX 10.4.2, for Powerbook G4 work on my iMac?

I've got 400 MHz, internal DVD, usb, firewire etc.

Apologies for any hint of "stupid question" about this...

Robin

 

[robbieduncan]

mmm... interesting. Been looking on ebay to find Panther or Tiger.

Would an install DVD, OSX 10.4.2, for Powerbook G4 work on my iMac?

I've got 400 MHz, internal DVD, usb, firewire etc.

Apologies for any hint of "stupid question" about this...

Robin

Those discs are locked to the type of computer they came with, so in this case a PowerBook G4. Also those copies of OSX are legally tied to the machines they shipped with. You would be breaking the license conditions if you installed it.

 

[robinduncan]

Those discs are locked to the type of computer they came with, so in this case a PowerBook G4. Also those copies of OSX are legally tied to the machines they shipped with. You would be breaking the license conditions if you installed it.

Right, thanks. Guess I'd better look for a boxed version?
Cool name by the way.
c ya,
Robin (also Scottish)

 

[robinduncan]

no. You will need to upgrade your system. System 10.3 (and 10.4) are much faster on the same hardware than 10.2. They will be much faster for you, too. My conclusions are made using 10.2, 10.3 and later 10.4 on a Mac G3 350 MHz with DVD ROM drive.

Hi,
just before I buy:

1.
would installing Tiger or Panther on my iMac be likely to provoke more problems than installing Jaguar (as I say, it's an iMac G3, 400Mhz, DVD, Firewire etc.)

2.
Once installed, would they really be faster as Soulstorm suggests? (I just want a second opinion to be sure before I fork out. No offence intended Soulstorm!

 

[apunkrockmonk]

I can definitely support his claim that the speed increases.

If you have less then 512MB of ram you would see better performance with Panther most likely.

Luckily its much cheaper then Tiger.

If you have 512MB of ram and don't mind paying for Tiger, go for it.

My sawtooth came with 10.1 installed, it was soooo slow.

I installed tiger and its very useable (the main computer I use is a MBP to give you some perspective).

 

[robbieduncan]

I can definitely support his claim that the speed increases.

If you have less then 512MB of ram you would see better performance with Panther most likely.

I'd agree. Unless you NEED the additional features of Tiger (or want to install software that requires Tiger) I'd go for Panther as it's most likely going to be faster on your hardware.