[jamesingentilly]

G3 blue and white
Mac OS 9.2.x
256 RAM

hello everyone from Paris! it's lovely fall weather!

Does it make sense to go to _Panther_ on a blue and white G3 (350 or 400mhz) ? We have several in our department that are running system 9 that we're thinking about upgrading....

(I asked this question on the apple discussion forum a couple of days ago but didn't get many comments....)

I imagine that blue and white G3's and system 10 have been discussed before....
but I couldn't find any thing in the FAQ or by using search...

Should we go to Panther? or just upgrade to Jaguar? Since we have G4's running Jaguar I could just upgrade those machines and use those licenses on the G3's --but I've heard that 10.3 runs better on G3's than 10.2 does.... If this is the case then I think we should try to upgrade all the computers to Panther.... if not I can save some money for our school.... ideas??? experience?

The apple store says that a G3 500mhz is what they recommend for 10.3 Do any of you have any hands-on experience???. our G3's are at about 300mhz but not much more I imagine and all have about 256MB of RAM.

thanks in advance for any advice or experience you can share....

james in paris

ps... am I mistaken or does the beige G3 use the same memory as the G3 B&W? I think i can get some extra RAM in the G3's B&W by using them...

[ryaxnb]

Originally posted by jamesingentilly:
G3 blue and white
Mac OS 9.2.x
256 RAM

hello everyone from Paris! it's lovely fall weather!

Does it make sense to go to _Panther_ on a blue and white G3 (350 or 400mhz) ? We have several in our department that are running system 9 that we're thinking about upgrading....

(I asked this question on the apple discussion forum a couple of days ago but didn't get many comments....)

I imagine that blue and white G3's and system 10 have been discussed before....
but I couldn't find any thing in the FAQ or by using search...

Should we go to Panther? or just upgrade to Jaguar? Since we have G4's running Jaguar I could just upgrade those machines and use those licenses on the G3's --but I've heard that 10.3 runs better on G3's than 10.2 does.... If this is the case then I think we should try to upgrade all the computers to Panther.... if not I can save some money for our school.... ideas??? experience?

The apple store says that a G3 500mhz is what they recommend for 10.3 Do any of you have any hands-on experience???. our G3's are at about 300mhz but not much more I imagine and all have about 256MB of RAM.

thanks in advance for any advice or experience you can share....

james in paris

ps... am I mistaken or does the beige G3 use the same memory as the G3 B&W? I think i can get some extra RAM in the G3's B&W by using them...

It's worth it! X has so many cool features and killer apps!

[bowwowman]

GO FOR IT (Panther, I mean)

but definitely up the ram.....384mb seems about the minimum, especially w/slower systems like the B&W's. I've got 1GB in mine and panther runs like a champ !

If you have rev 2 B&W's you can easily overclock the cpu by 50-100mhz simply by moving a few jumpers on the mobo....this will also give you a bit more speed for free.........

I would not recommend using ram from the Beige machines in a B&W....their specs call for PC100, and the beige calls for PC66. THis would only hurt the system speed not help it

[amontague]

I've used both Jaguar and Panther on my B+W G3 350 MHz 640 MB RAM. Panther is definitely much nicer to use. It's faster, and a lot of annoying bugs have been removed. For me, it's well worth upgrading from Jaguar to Panther

Andrew Montague

[Gul Banana]

Panther is faster than Jaguar on any hardware, including G3s.

[suthercd]

My experience is the most dramatic speed improvements are on G3 machines. Real WOW gee whiz stuff.

Craig

[goMac]

I'm running Panther Server on my G3, damn snappy.

[hodaddy]

only drawback was 10.3 doesnt see my PRI-MASTER drive. may be something unrelated. but, i still havent worked out the issue.

i installed 10.3 on the PRI-SLAVE. those two partitions show up fine.

but, the two partitions on the PRI-MAS are AWOL.

had to go back to 9.2 where everything shows up fine still. *shrug*

but, it is fast. very smooth and very quick UI.

[MacNStein]

See my sig. I installed a 900MHz Powerlogix G3 into my B&W and it absolutely flies in Panther (also installed a Radeon 32MB 7000 PCI, another 512MB of RAM, and an 80GB 7200RPM HD). A friend of mine owns a G4 667 and my B&W now runs circles around it.

[Webscreamer]

I have Panther on mine, but I am down-grading to Jaguar. I am running a server on it and it seems super buggy and there is a LOT more documentation so far for 10.2(obviously there would be).