Panther on a G3 400 iMac here...512 MB of RAM, but no Quartz Extreme. Panther is just fine. On your machine with more RAM, QE, and over twice the MHz, it should be great.
On a G3 Blue and White 450Mhz/1G and on an original Blueberry iBook 300Mhz/288Mb. Both booting/running noticibly faster with 10.3 installed. I did a clean install on both. Have Quartz Extreme enabled on the B&W, with a ATI Radeon.
Did Erase & Install on my iBook 500 dual USB. Works like a charm. Even expose is pretty smooth. About the same speed as before, but maybe slightly faster.
Can't wait to install Panther on my dual G5, but I'm still backing up my data on CD. (I want to do erase & install).
iHave an iBook G3 900 14" w/256MB RAM. Panther seems at least as fast as Jaguar, and there are nice little things (Sys Prefs seem to take less time to load, for instance, and there's a nice little crossfade while they do so, and sheets seem to come down faster.
iMac DVSE 500/512, just did a simple upgrade from 10.2.8, couldn't be bothered with a archive and all that this time, 10.3 works beautifully, expose runs very well considering the hardware.. the only time expose gets jerky is when you use it with a movie playing
I tried it on my g3 beige. Every Version of 10.2 runs without Problems, even 10.2.8, but 10.3 isn't.
I booted from a preinstalled 10.3 HD but got the same Kernel Panic like booting from the Installer CD.
Schlaefer
Because the Beige G3's don't have USB, they are not supported by Panther. Note: lacking USB is not the source of the incompatibility, only an easy way to describe it.
I have Panther on my Pismo PowerBook (G3 400 MHZ, 640 MB RAM). It runs great, and it is an amazing improvement. It seems to react faster, overall, but I'd say the response is better in every aspect, also, from the improvements in the Finder and optimizations of the system. Expose' is instantaneous. Quick user switching works but without the cool rotating cube effect, since my machine does not support Quartz Extreme. Everything else is phenomenal. Upgrade? YES - Why have you waited so many days already!!
It feels faster and more responsive. Xbench tests I did with Jag and Panther have shown that many things remain about the same speed, but several things are significantly faster.
Text rendering, Memory Allocation, and writing files to the hard drive were the biggest winners.
However, running top in the terminal shows top itself using a higher CPU percentage than before.
iTunes still between 10% and 30% CPU usage. I guess this is an improvement, since it was 15% to 35% in Jaguar. Still, I want to see MP3 playback that uses under 10% all the time.
I'm going to install WarCraft III in a moment and see if it's Panther has made it playable.
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really impressed me....you shouldnt have any problems with it.
Can't wait to install Panther on my dual G5, but I'm still backing up my data on CD. (I want to do erase & install).
Then I'll try puttin Panther on my Mac SE.
Originally posted by salty chips
Anyone tried it on a beige G3?
I've been unable to get any version of OSX working on my beige G3. I gave up and installed yellowdog.
Originally posted by ThinkingDifferent
I've been unable to get any version of OSX working on my beige G3. I gave up and installed yellowdog.
10.2.6 works fine on my Beige G3. But since 10.2.8 skrewed my computer up, I had to reinstall 10.2.6.
Originally posted by ThinkingDifferent
I've been unable to get any version of OSX working on my beige G3. I gave up and installed yellowdog.
Linux is a great OS... don't be mad... just get geeky and enjoy linux.
Highly recommended upgrade
I booted from a preinstalled 10.3 HD but got the same Kernel Panic like booting from the Installer CD.
Schlaefer
I want to install it.... soon...
Originally posted by Schlaefer
I tried it on my g3 beige. Every Version of 10.2 runs without Problems, even 10.2.8, but 10.3 isn't.
I booted from a preinstalled 10.3 HD but got the same Kernel Panic like booting from the Installer CD.
Schlaefer
Because the Beige G3's don't have USB, they are not supported by Panther. Note: lacking USB is not the source of the incompatibility, only an easy way to describe it.
I think it's worth the jump if you have the money and the new features are appealing enough to you.
It feels faster and more responsive. Xbench tests I did with Jag and Panther have shown that many things remain about the same speed, but several things are significantly faster.
Text rendering, Memory Allocation, and writing files to the hard drive were the biggest winners.
However, running top in the terminal shows top itself using a higher CPU percentage than before.
iTunes still between 10% and 30% CPU usage. I guess this is an improvement, since it was 15% to 35% in Jaguar. Still, I want to see MP3 playback that uses under 10% all the time.
I'm going to install WarCraft III in a moment and see if it's Panther has made it playable.