[pete]

My mother has a lombard running os 9. I'd like to bring her into the world of X for tech support reasons (I barely remember what 9 looks like and I help her over the phone a lot.). How slow is it? My friend has a pismo 400mhz with 700+ ram and it runs Jaguar well, at least for everyday office apps, email and internet. If it is anything close to that, I'd say it is worth the upgrade.

I know that the best thing would be to just get a new computer, but that's not an option right now.

So, should she stay on os 9 or would it be worthwhile to upgrade to X and add ram?

Thanks for any suggestions...

[ricardosan]

I run a Lombard with 10.1 and it works fine for most office apps. Image heavy stuff is slow - Photoshop is OK burt not for work environ, iPhoto crawls. Jaguar will be quicker, but you'll need heaps of memory - I'm using 320mb. And what about hard-drive space - if you've still got only 4GB...

[Rjtz15]

Originally posted by ricardosan:
I run a Lombard with 10.1 and it works fine for most office apps. Image heavy stuff is slow - Photoshop is OK burt not for work environ, iPhoto crawls. Jaguar will be quicker, but you'll need heaps of memory - I'm using 320mb. And what about hard-drive space - if you've still got only 4GB...

Jaguar worked fine on my Wallstreet 266MHz G3 with 192MB Ram.

[vmarks]

my other machine is a lombard333 512mb ram with 10.2.6 on it.

It's not bad, but a few things take awhile.

If she's happy with OS 9 and it's not causing trouble for her, leave her with it.

Save your ram dollars for a new machine for her.

But 10.2.x works reasonably well on it.