X on imac 233

el_tostada

Hi all, not sure if this is the right section to post this in but here goes.



Just like to know if it is worth me putting Panther or even Jaguar on my original imac 233mhz till i get enough cash for a new mac (am currently using OS9.2 on the old girl). After using jaguar on another mac, i felt that my mac was embaressingly inferior, to the point that i was searching the floor for a hole to swallow me up in. So what i would really like to know is just how snappy would Panther or Jaguar be on it? And if you have a similar setup to this could you please time the startup for me and also tell me how snappy it is in comparison to OS9.



[imac 233, 96mb RAM (will upgrade), 4 gig HD.]



Many thanks for your help and much appreciated, mike.

dobby

We have 2 beige G3s (233Mhz) 256MB, 4GB and 10.3.

I had to install 10.3 on another machine then put the disk in the G3 tho.



Not exactly fast but not much difference between 10.3 and 9 as far as the users are concerned (they don't compain).



Memory upgrade is a must.



Dobby

drboar

I was running 10.2 on a B&W G3/300 128 MB RAM and 6 GB HD, really slow and spinning beach ball. Added a 64 RAM pin to 192 and that helped a lot. You can actually have 512 MB RAM in it and



1. I suggest that putting in a 256 for a total of 320 MB will be good enough.



2. Do a custom install or clean out the system afterwards of serveral hundred of megabytes of printerdrivers and languages that you never ever use.



3. You will love X and expose



4. Accept that X is slower than 9, it simply is! The compensation is true multitasking, like webbrowsing at the same time as a system update is applied or other work is performed. Other perks is stability, a vastly superior finder and many many more things.



I actully have 10.1.5 running on a 7600/200 and it not to bad

el_tostada

Ah, cheers much appreciated. I'll upgrade the ram and put It on, are there any firmware updates i need for my imac or shall i just do a clean install? Ive heard rumors that unless firmware is updated it runs very slow.



I'll be using this and my performa 450, until the imac goes G5, not much longer to wait now though i reckon. Better save the pennies. thanks.

alberto

I have Jaguar in my iMac, just like your spect, but I added 4 MB of VRam... it was barely usable, but then I got a 256 stick, so 64 + 256 of Ram helps a lot.... I can use web, email, and very basic Graphic Converter stuff, but it feels nicer than OS 9. I think that with Panther it will be faster!

Amazon has Panther for 110$ without mail rebates...

gl!