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panther on a g3-700 iBook?
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does anybody run panther on their g3-700 iBook, or at least know if it would run okay?? the one i'm getting will have 384 megs of ram
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Using the laws of butterology and the equally strict laws of feline aerodynamics, the conclusion that when a cat with a peice of buttered toast strapped to its back is dropped, it will hover above the ground due to quantum indecision.
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The only thing Panther will do is make it faster.
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faster? really? thats interesting!
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Using the laws of butterology and the equally strict laws of feline aerodynamics, the conclusion that when a cat with a peice of buttered toast strapped to its back is dropped, it will hover above the ground due to quantum indecision.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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versus...jaguar? or os9??
i know lots of people running panther on G3s, from 400mhz powerbooks, 350mhz imac,
etc etc.
9 may be faster, but X is better.
maybe later, get more ram (which is cheap as hell these days)
go for it!
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"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
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Panther will run absolutely great on that iBook. It even has full support for Quartz Extreme, so all the effects will be perfectly smooth. 384MB Ram are not much, but certainly enough for normal work.
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I'm running Panther on a iMac 350 Mhz and an iBook 500 Mhz. Both have 384Mb of RAM. I've no issues with performance at all, and now wonder why I held back upgrading from OS 9.
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In comparison to Jaguar, Panther is definitely faster on almost all levels. OS 9 may feel faster than OS X in the GUI, but in reality overall speed of applications is the same or close enough as to make no difference. But it shouldn't really matter in this case, because the 700 Mhz iBook shipped with OS X anyway.
One thing I always urge people to consider is RAM, I would max that iBook out to 640 because OS X eats RAM like nothing else. Depending on what you do with it, you may not notice though.
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I have that exact setup (iBook 700 G3 w/ 384mb RAM) and Panther is great. Loading Photoshop takes a while, but other than that I have no real speed complaints...
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I also have that exact setup.
Panther runs fine, heavyweight apps (especially more than one at a time) can drag. I'd recommend upping to 640Mb of RAM, that's what I'd do if I had the money.
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Originally posted by theJoKell:
Loading Photoshop takes a while, but other than that I have no real speed complaints...
And just to note, that is directly related to how much RAM you have rather than it being a G3. PS is a RAM hungry app and so is OS X. Putting the two together and 384 becomes a pretty small number.
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Panther even runs ok on a pismo 400.
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Lombard G-3 400 w/ 384 megs here
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Yeah, Panther does make it faster. A song that used to take 5 minute to complete now takes 30 seconds! With each OS update, that time will eventually go to to sub-second. 
I have a G3 700 iBook with 384 MB RAM and like others have said, Panther runs just fine. Window resize, etc, is still not as fast as Windows but I don't think ithat is a CPU problem as the the dual 2.5 PM exhibits same issue.
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One iMac, iBook, one iPod, way too many PCs.
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