10.3 on a G4 cube?

psgamer0921 · January 2, 2004 1:39PM

Has anyone tried to install Panther on a G4 cube? Does it run as well as it should? (I might be getting an old one cheap that runs 10.2, and i might upgrade)

anders · January 2, 2004 1:40PM

Panther is the fastest Xversion on ANY hardware I have ever tried it on.

January 2, 2004 1:44PM

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Originally posted by psgamer0921

Has anyone tried to install Panther on a G4 cube? Does it run as well as it should? (I might be getting an old one cheap that runs 10.2, and i might upgrade)

No problems with mine so far...although honestly I don't use the sexy thing as often as I'd like to.

placebo · January 2, 2004 5:33PM

I met someone at the Café this morning...who runs Panther on a Powerbook G4 450, and says "it runs like a dream".

Nuff said.

pscates · January 2, 2004 7:12PM

If it helps, I'm currently running Panther on an iMac DV.

We're talking 4-year-old hardware here, with a 400MHz G3 and 8MB graphics, so...

Runs Panther a hell of a lot better than the Public Beta or 10.1!

murbot · January 2, 2004 7:34PM

I'm running it on a 500MHz Pismo and loving it.

Should be even better on a Cube.

paul · January 2, 2004 7:37PM

I have an original iMac (Rev. A 233 with 6MB VRAM and 288MB RAM) running panther that is my print server and "free" mac--connected to the internet and always ready to go...

runs like a champ, almost as fast as 9... (considering things like expose work on it that is quite a feat)

niji · January 2, 2004 8:31PM

running panther on a cube 500, with 1 gig mem.

runs very quickly w/o (hardly) any spinning beach balls.

however, for Photoshop, or even iPhoto with thousands of photos, I get the beach ball frequently.

however, NOTHING can replace this cube. i love it.

the general · January 3, 2004 7:22AM

Quote:

Originally posted by psgamer0921

Has anyone tried to install Panther on a G4 cube? Does it run as well as it should? (I might be getting an old one cheap that runs 10.2, and i might upgrade)

I currently have panther running on:

300mhz G3 Ibook, runs fine

BlueBerry 350 mhz Imac, runs fine

G4 450 mhz Cube, runs fine

600 mhz Flowerpower Imac, runs fine.

and 1ghz 17" Imac, runs fine.

8)

blue2kdave · January 3, 2004 9:05AM

Interesting to note, while Panther runs fine on a cube, Panter Server does not. I had retired my cube to the closet to act as a family server with a firewire raid. All's well until 10.3 server install (which to Apple's credit, the cube was not listed under supported devices) Anway, it forced me to buy a G5 for home and use the G4 tower for a server. Oh well...

cubedude · January 3, 2004 10:34AM

I'm also running Panther on a Cube, and using it as a server in the background(FTP, Apache, and VNC), and it works great.

But, you need at least 512 megs of RAM, IMO, to run smoothly.

dmband0026 · January 4, 2004 1:17AM

Running 10.3.2 on a Cube (450mhz 16MB VRAM, 384 mb ram) Thats right, only 384MB of ram. Still runs like a dream. I do heavy Photoshoping and a lot of Final cut pro work. Although it isn't blazing, the render times are surprisingly quick for a machine with such low specs. Go for the Cube, it's an amazing machine!

willywalloo · January 8, 2004 12:49AM

G5 (only option)

G4/dual 450

G3/350 Blue and White (B/W)

iMac

PowerBook 867 Alu

iBook G3 700

All of these are running OS X 10.3.2 and smooth sailing.

JUST REMEMBER, IF YOU HAVE MAJOR PROBLEMS, DO A CLEAN INSTALL. You probably installed some crap on accident.

-walloo.

peve · January 8, 2004 6:25PM

10.2.3 on my cube 450mhz (1gb ram).

it's almost like a g5 - without the noise.

;-)

mattjohndrow · January 13, 2004 1:03PM

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Originally posted by Anders

Panther is the fastest Xversion on ANY hardware I have ever tried it on.

i agree, i have it on my 400 Mhz iMac G3, it has a good chunk of RAM in it (768) but it runs incredibly smoothly for a G3

10.3 on a G4 cube?

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