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Best OS for G3 600?
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Join Date: May 2004
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A friend who is fairly new to macs has bought an iBook G3 600 off eBay and wants me to help him set it up. It has 10.2 on it, so I was wondering if 10.4 would be ok on it, or would 10.3 be best?
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MBP 2.16ghz 15"
iMac G5 1.6Ghz 17"
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Senior User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Anson, TX
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Tiger likes more memory than panther if you use widgets and stuff like that. both panther and tiger run suprisingly well on a g3 450 i have...
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I like chicken
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MBP 2.16ghz 15"
iMac G5 1.6Ghz 17"
Powermac 7200/120
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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I ran Tiger 10.4.5 on a 500 MHz G3 iBook and it ran very well. I would recommend Tiger if your friend is going to use things like Spotlight and Dashboard. However, if he/she isn't into widgets or anything like that, Panther 10.3.9 should be fine as well.
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21.5" iMac | OS X 10.6.4 | 3.06 GHz | 4GB DDR3
Motorola Droid | 2.2 Froyo
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Southaven, MS
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I'd say run Tiger and disable Dashboard. Dashboard's too much of a hog on an older machine.
But I say Tiger because it's quicker than Panther, has better features and better integration between apps.
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iMac 17" 2GHz Core2Duo | 1GB RAM | 160GB hdd | Superdrive | Tiger and XP Pro
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Los Angeles of the East
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i gotta agree with lateralus...your friend doesnt need dashboard or spotlight if he's gettin such an old computer as is. 10.3.9 is plenty fast and less of a load on an older machine.
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NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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Tiger for Safari RSS and Spotlight. You can disable Dashboard if desired.
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Join Date: Sep 2005
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No matter which OS you use, max out the RAM....
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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Panther would be the best, Tiger uses too much memory, even for my Powerbook G4.
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If he is using 10.2, upgrade to Tiger... there is no reason to go out of your way to buy/steal an older OS when Tiger doesn't use much more RAM.
I'm using Tiger on my 733 G4 and it runs perfectly. No way I would go back to Panther.
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TiPB 400 and Cube 450 running tiger nicely, much better than previous OS X
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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I agree with production_coordinator, I am using a iBook G3 500 with 512MB of RAM, and it runs great. OS is smooth, and seems pretty snappy...... but not compared to my 17"PB..... but that would be an unfair comparison.
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ubuntu Linux & either the gnome desktop or xfce
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I will go for the 10.3.9 i had bad expirience with 10.4
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