[royboy]

I am on an iMac G3/400mHZ/320 MB RAM/10 GB HD/OSX 2.8/80GB firewire external hard drive.

I have a Tiger DVD and am considering installing it in order to "stay current" and to get onto a newer version of Safari - as I'm about fed up with v1.0 and its glitches. Anyone think this a bad idea in terms of my machine's capabilites? I understand that a stripped down install, without extra drivers and languages, fits in around 2 GB, so I'm guessing I have room.

Feedback?

Thanks - Roy

[Thinine]

Should run as well or better than Jaguar on your machine. It'll take up more HD space, and you may want to get more RAM, but those are the only real differences. I think you'll see a bit of a speed up.

[JKT]

Why not just install it on the external HD and use that as your boot drive instead of the internal? It's what I did for over a year with a similar specced Mac (prior to Tiger though)... though more RAM is a given.

[shunt]

Thinine is absolutely right, Tiger will actually run better, faster...it knows how to handle the hardware just fine.

I had that exact same machine once upon a time...Panther on it was OK, Tiger was better. Pretty amazing actually, and the benefits are worth it...even with the ram you have, but a little more wouldn't hurt.