10.2.x or 10.3 running on ibook

jarvis8484jarvis8484
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
I have a chance to purchase a used 12" ibook . . . it has a 700mhz G3 with 128 mb of ram (I know this needs upgrading). How will 10.2.x and/or 10.3 run on this machine? Thanks for your help.

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    videianvideian Posts: 2member
    Everything I have read says that panther drastically improves performance on lower end machines.... I say go for it
  • Reply 2 of 7
    smirclesmircle Posts: 1,035member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by jarvis8484

    I have a chance to purchase a used 12" ibook . . . it has a 700mhz G3 with 128 mb of ram (I know this needs upgrading). How will 10.2.x and/or 10.3 run on this machine? Thanks for your help.



    Depends on what you are measuring it against. Both, 10.2 and 10.3 will be absolutely usable unless you do:

    - heavy photoshop

    - video editing

    - heavy programming.



    10.3 is noticebly faster than 10.2, but of course a 700Mhz G3 machine is no competition to say a P4m at 1400Mhz.
  • Reply 3 of 7
    toweltowel Posts: 1,479member
    Jaguar runs great on my 700 MHz iBook. You have nothing to worry about.
  • Reply 4 of 7
    youthdudeyouthdude Posts: 2member
    I have a 900mHz iBook running Jaguar just fine. I even edit videos on it, which is a little slower than the G4, but I don't mind at the price I paid. I also maxed out the RAM to 640 which made a huge difference in performance.
  • Reply 5 of 7
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    10.2.6 runs well on a 500MHz iBook, as long as you don't try to do anything too heavy duty.



    Make sure you have at least 384MB RAM, and preferably 512MB, and you'll be fine.



    As noted above, Panther is widely reported to be a significantly better performer than Jaguar, so your iBook should get a boost from the update.
  • Reply 6 of 7
    agent302agent302 Posts: 974member
    I guess this is where I chime in and say that I happily ran 10.1.x on an iMac DV 400 with 320 MB of RAM for over year (until I found an excuse to get a powerbook).
  • Reply 7 of 7
    nofeernofeer Posts: 2,427member
    iMac dv 400 640mb ram 10.2.6 i'll have 9.2 10.2.6 safari, mail, quicken, appleworks running the same time no problems. when i do limited photoshop it's about the same but i close the others except safari and os 9

    just fine, if panther is faster/ better then i'll upgrade

    but waiting till next year to update the imac hopefully to g5

    my priorities is

    christmas--ipod, ibook or PB depending on notebook specs

    march--pb for me hope g5 12 vs 15
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