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OS Upgrade Worth it for 700 MHz Flat Panel iMac
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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I have a 700 MHz Flat Panel G4 iMac running 10.2.8 with 768 MB of RAM.
Is this machine worth upgrading to 10.3 or 10.4? I am afraid that this upgrade would just slow the system down. Would one of the upgrades be better than another? Although I can get the student upgrade price on 10.4, 10.3 is selling on eBay for under $25.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jun 2006
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10.3 would not slow it down, i don't know about tiger. are there any applications you want to use that won't run well in jaguar? i have 800 g4 that i upgraded to panther from 10.1 a year ago. like playing with a new machine. slowed down macsolitaire but allowed me to use pearlyrics. for that kind of money how can you go wrong? would you like to have the extra features of tiger----only you can answer that?
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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tiger runs perfect on a 700mhz imac g4 ive been for the last yr and not any slowdown at all also runs great on my 400mhz pb g4 but as for buying tiger i wouldnt id wait til lepeord rather jsut d/l the tiger cds or dvd from some torrent site and give it a try
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: London'ish
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10.3 will be great. 10.4 should be good too, but in my experience 10.4 is a bit more ram hungry, so you might want to consider adding some more..
I use 10.4 on a 1ghz powerbook with 768mb of ram, and its good enough, but does show signs of ram starvation from time to time.
10.3 or 10.4 are definitely worthy upgrades over 10.2
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The worst thing about having a failing memory is..... no, it's gone.
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Cincinnati, Oh
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i use Tiger on a 700 mHz emac. i have 768 MB of ram. it's perfectly useable, though it could use a bit more RAM. i think Tiger runs a little slower on it than panther did, but it's fast enough and Tiger is a better OS than Panther, so i haven't thought about downgrading.
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20" iMac/2.4 C2D/4GB RAM/320 HD + ViewSonic VX2025WM
13" MBP/2.26 C2D/4GB RAM/250 HD
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: UK
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Originally Posted by desolation
d/l the tiger cds or dvd from some torrent site and give it a try
A BIG no no on these forums - read the rules, you are strictly not allowed to encourage downloading things illegally through P2P, torrents, or any other way.
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iMac Core Duo 1.83 Ghz | 1.25GB RAM | 160HD, MacBook Core Duo 1.83 Ghz | 13.3" | 60HD | 1.0GB RAM
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Baninated
Join Date: May 2005
Location: England
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tiger 10.4.6 works great on my PowerMac G4 400mhz, with 512mb. I also had panther on there before and i have noticed no slowdown between the versions.
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