[jdiddy]

I picked up an old B&W PowerMac G3 400. It has 384 MB of ram in it at the moment. Am I better served installing Tiger or Panther into it? Which one would run faster. Thanks in advance.

[tooki]

Whichever you like. There's no significant difference in performance.

But put in more RAM. The closer you are to your limit of 1GB, the better. That'll make more of a speed difference than the OS version.

tooki

[Lateralus]

I say Panther. The performance is pretty comparable on newer machines between Panther and Tiger, but Tiger is a little more demanding on system resources so Panther is faster on slower machines.

[bowwowman]

If ya can max da ram, go tiger........
tiger love da ram !
but all OS X do 2

[jamil5454]

You might as well just go with Tiger. It's not like your machine is going to be fast with Panther anyway. At least you'll have better software compatibility for the future.