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Panther Performance on the iBook and G3 iMac?
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Hello,
I have an iBook 500 with 640MB RAM and an iMac DV SE 500 with 768MB RAM.
I would like to upgrade both of them to Panther but am worried about 10.3.0's support of older hardware.
According to Apple's minimum requirements, both of these machines can technically run Panther. However, I'm worried that this new OS will over-tax my aging/aged hardware.
Are my fears unfounded? Does anyone have any personal experience with Panther on 500MHz G3s? How does it compare to Jaguar on such a machine?
Thanks,
Peter
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Yes, your fears are unfounded.
Panther optimizes a bunch of things that will benefit your Macs.
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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What about video card performance?
It seems that with each successive OS X upgrade, gaming performance goes down. OS 9 still out-performs OS X for gaming on my iBook. I still game in X since I don't have to worry about crashes and I can adjust volume and screen brightness on the fly.
Will Panther bring out the best from our aging video hardware (8 MB ATi Rage 128 Mobility in my case)?
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At worst, Apple hasn't optimized the drivers for the old ATi cards any further. So, performance should be the same.
At best, it will be better (but probably not much).
Apple is doing the right thing with its successive upgrades to OS X: make it work well first, then make it work fast. No to bash Microsoft but, speed-wise, it's pretty much the opposite of what happens to Windows. It's almost as if every release of that OS slows down your machine.
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My 500mhz iBook feels like a new machine with Panther. It's really much more responsive. The difference is much more noticable than it was between 10.1 -> Jaguar on my iBook.
For example, when I had Mail hidden on 10.2, when I clicked on the Mail icon in the Dock, the Mail window would sometime take 1-2 seconds to appear on screen. Now it instantanous. Everything feels a lot faster.
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Originally posted by pat++:
My 500mhz iBook feels like a new machine with Panther. It's really much more responsive. The difference is much more noticable than it was between 10.1 -> Jaguar on my iBook.
For example, when I had Mail hidden on 10.2, when I clicked on the Mail icon in the Dock, the Mail window would sometime take 1-2 seconds to appear on screen. Now it instantanous. Everything feels a lot faster.
Sweet! This is what I was hoping to hear!
-Peter
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