Re: OS-X for an old iBook

I can say that my 400Mhz Pismo PowerBook G3 with 576 meg. of RAM runs Panther quite nicely; indeed Panther is significantly more responsive than Jaguar was. Applications launch faster, and the GUI is zippier.

Apart from RAM and processor speed, another factor to keep in mind with older machines is the iBook's HD size. Anything less than 6 gig., and you might have a hard time fitting Panther and a "typical" suite of applications on to the computer. "Typical," of course, varies by user.

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Glenn D. Tiffert
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On Nov 6, 2003, at 10:58 AM, G Donald Bain wrote:

>Anyone have experience (or opinions) on upgrading an original iBook (I think of it as the "tangerine" generation) to OS-X? I am told it has lots of memory.
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>Don
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