How fast is Panther on my iBook 500Mhz?
I have a dual-USB iBook with 500Mhz G3, 256MB of RAM, and RageM3 graphics card with 8MB of video RAM (which doesn't support Quartz Extreme, right?). My question is, how fast will Panther run on my iBook, for those of you lucky enough to have tried it. Will I notice an overall performance boost? In what area specifically? Will Expose run sluggishly?
Another thing I want to know is the size of the Panther standard installation on my HD... will it take up more space than Jaguar, by how much? I'm quite concerned about my puny little 15GB HD.
Another thing I want to know is the size of the Panther standard installation on my HD... will it take up more space than Jaguar, by how much? I'm quite concerned about my puny little 15GB HD.
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I'm not quite sure if it'll take up any more room than Jaguar. Probably a bit more.
I think everyone should see a pretty good leap in performance (like they did in Jag) especially those of us who don't have QE compatable video systems. Oh, and I'm using it as my main OS right now, and even at the current stage it's pretty stable. Uh, I mean my friend is... Oh crap! *runs from Apple's NDA cops*
Originally posted by Zapchud
I can second Ringo. A G3 500 without QE will get a substansial performance boost, and Exposé will run perfectly acceptably. I've tested that myself.
Great! My iBook is ecstatic now.
Guess I can squeeze one more OS update into my PBG4.