Hi, im new here, I have just bought a G4 (digital audio) 466mhz with 1.2GB of RAM and running OS 9.2. My question is do I upgrade to Panther or Tiger because I want to connect it to my home network. i have heard this is easier to do on OSX. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated as I have not used a Mac for a long time.
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Which OSX do I go for
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Upgrade to Tiger.. it's the newest one.
Or if you want to wait till Spring 07, you can then get Leopard.
Or if you want to wait till Spring 07, you can then get Leopard.
DXoverDY said:
Panther or Tiger would be fine. Make sure you have loads of ram though.
I prefer Tiger over Panther, because it's the most current OS right now and I like to stay up to date.
Perhaps just to be contrarian, I'm running Jaguar on my 300 mhz blueberry clamshell and it's pretty flawless (and snappy enough).
Regardless of the version of OS X you choose, I would leave OS 9 behind. 9.2 is a wonderfully stable OS, but it's veering toward being pretty out of date.
Regardless of the version of OS X you choose, I would leave OS 9 behind. 9.2 is a wonderfully stable OS, but it's veering toward being pretty out of date.
DXoverDY said:
Nope again. Tiger runs better than Panther on my G3/400MHz Powerbook. Tiger all the way.
I'd go for Panther, but that's just because Tiger has a bug in the international settings that may not apply to you. I actually have Panther installed on a 400 MHz G3 with 832 MB of RAM, and it's certainly "fast enough". I've had Tiger on there in the past, but I'm not sure whether it was faster or slower.
I have Tiger on my 400 mhz sawtooth and it's just zippy enough. I never used panther though so I can't really comment on that.
DXoverDY said:
No worries its a good guess...
but some of us arnt new to macs
Back on topic...Go with tiger...and feed it a gig of ram
I have a g3 450 with tiger and it loves it
When I upgraded my 500Mhz iBook from Panther to Tiger, it took a noticeable drop in speed. Unless you're really stuck on the idea of using the Dashboard and Widgets (which is extremely overrated, in my opinion), I'd stick with Panther. It doesn't hog the resources like Tiger.
A) Running Tiger on a DP 450/2GB sawtooth notta problemo, zippy or otherwise. WAY faster than Panther !
B) You dont HAVE to use dashboard or spotlight, kill them for no drag
A) Running Tiger on a DP 450/2GB sawtooth notta problemo, zippy or otherwise. WAY faster than Panther !
B) You dont HAVE to use dashboard or spotlight, kill them for no drag
Never said you have to use dashboard. I was pointing out that if you don't want to use it, there's not much point in going for Tiger over Panther.
Except that once Leopard is out, a lot of software isn't going to support Panther much longer...
There's waaaay more to Tiger than Dashboard and Spotlight. It's true that a fair amount of functionality in Tiger isn't obvious to the average end user, but already there's some software that runs better in Tiger and in some cases not at all on Panther because of that.
--Eric
Don't even question it, Tiger all the way, your computer is still money and with 1.2gb of ram it'll run just fine.