worth upgrading from Darwin to Panther on low-end iMacs?

2much2much
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in macOS edited January 2014
Hello,



I have an 400mHz, G3 iMac with 192MB RAM. It is running OS 10.1.5 with no problems, but I am annoyed that I can't install the latest version of QuickTime since I'd like to use the new compression Apple has introduced to iTunes 4.5. Is it worth the money & hassles to upgrade to Panther? Or should I track down a 10.2 upgrade on eBay? Or wait around until the imaginatively-named Tiger is released?

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  • Reply 1 of 8
    a_greera_greer Posts: 4,594member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by 2much

    Hello,



    I have an 400mHz, G3 iMac with 192MB RAM. It is running OS 10.1.5 with no problems, but I am annoyed that I can't install the latest version of QuickTime since I'd like to use the new compression Apple has introduced to iTunes 4.5. Is it worth the money & hassles to upgrade to Panther? Or should I track down a 10.2 upgrade on eBay? Or wait around until the imaginatively-named Tiger is released?



    Well, you do meet the specs for panther, but there is speculation that apple is readying QT7 and if that is included with tiger...i would wait, if tiger requiers more than you have in preformance, then go panther, INHO
  • Reply 2 of 8
    jambojambo Posts: 3,036member
    FYI:



    10.1 was "Puma".



    "Darwin" is the open source UNIX-based foundation of Mac OS X.
  • Reply 3 of 8
    2much2much Posts: 6member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by a_greer

    Well, you do meet the specs for panther, but there is speculation that apple is readying QT7 and if that is included with tiger...i would wait, if tiger requiers more than you have in preformance, then go panther, INHO



    thanks for the tip, I actually think that I could use some more RAM before I start spending on software, so probably waiting for Tiger is the way to go.
  • Reply 4 of 8
    2much2much Posts: 6member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Jambo

    FYI:



    10.1 was "Puma".



    "Darwin" is the open source UNIX-based foundation of Mac OS X.



    Thanks for the clarification, I was wondering where all these big-cat names were coming from
  • Reply 5 of 8
    jambojambo Posts: 3,036member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by 2much

    Thanks for the clarification, I was wondering where all these big-cat names were coming from



    No problem
  • Reply 6 of 8
    ensoniqensoniq Posts: 131member
    Just for information, I'm running Panther on a 400 MHz iMac DV w/512 MB of RAM. I have run every version of OS X starting with 10.1, and Panther is absolutely the fastest so far.



    For my needs (Internet, Word Processing, iTunes), this machine is more than fast enough to handle Panther. Buy yourself a 512 MB RAM chip for $75 bucks, and you'll be in business.
  • Reply 7 of 8
    2much2much Posts: 6member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Ensoniq

    Just for information, I'm running Panther on a 400 MHz iMac DV w/512 MB of RAM. I have run every version of OS X starting with 10.1, and Panther is absolutely the fastest so far.



    For my needs (Internet, Word Processing, iTunes), this machine is more than fast enough to handle Panther. Buy yourself a 512 MB RAM chip for $75 bucks, and you'll be in business.



    great... that's exactly what I needed to hear! I also want to use some web design stuff (illustrator, dreamweaver) but my last machine (which I was using until yesterday) was a Performa 6400 running OS 8.1... so I have learnt to have patience, & this one already seems lightning fast by comparison
  • Reply 8 of 8
    vox barbaravox barbara Posts: 2,021member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by 2much

    great... that's exactly what I needed to hear! I also want to use some web design stuff (illustrator, dreamweaver) but my last machine (which I was using until yesterday) was a Performa 6400 running OS 8.1... so I have learnt to have patience, & this one already seems lightning fast by comparison



    May i confirm that with a iMac G3 350 MHz? Its is plenty fast and will match your needs anyway.
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