[Freeflyer]

I have a friend with an ibook G3 600mhz 245mb. Currently they're running 10.2.8. Would Tiger run reasonably on that system. According to apple, it's the bare minimum for Tiger and I wondered if they would be better staying with what they've got, or whether Tiger would improve the system at all.

Be grateful for your opinion.

J.

[Barry]

If they could max out the memory (640 MB Max) it will be useable. It would also work a LOT better if you can upgrade to panther 10.3.9

Att his point however, It would be a LOT cheaper if you bought a new laptop. You are looking at a 2 or 3 x processor speed boost, and useability well into the future.

[tooki]

Frankly, I don't think there are any appreciable speed differences between 10.2, 10.3, or 10.4. If anything, things have gotten faster with newer versions. (Benchmarks show this!)

Regardless, I run 10.4 on a 400MHz G3 and it runs just as well as 10.2 or 10.3. But you'll definitely need to bump the RAM all the way to the maximum.

tooki

[OreoCookie]

Add RAM and it should work fine. Don't expect wonders, though, but if 10.2 is ok for that guy, 10.4 will be, too.