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.
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.
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.
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).
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
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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.
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.
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