07-18-2005, 12:38 PM

hey all...just recently got my hands on a 15" Imac G4 from a friend who inherited it from a house he bought...obviously its password protected and also loaded with kid friendly software...i want to do a clean install and start from scratch...i was planning on doing a warm boot and then holding down the "C" button...my question though pertains to the O/S that i should load...i have an IBook G4 running 10.3.9 and i love it but i am not sure if I should instead go with Tiger right off the bat in lieu of OS X. If anyone has any experience with this sort of upgrade or reformat and can let me know if they saw a decline in speed or issues that would maybe make this not worth it please let me know..I am very curious as to how Tiger is performing on the older model Apples...i have two IBooks and now the IMac and would rather have the updated O/S but i have gotten burned before with Windows and upgrades that killed my machines...

thanks for any help, advice or assistance.

Skip

07-18-2005, 02:11 PM

Originally Posted by imy0urh3r0

....i am not sure if I should instead go with Tiger right off the bat in lieu of OS X.

Well Tiger is OS X...just version 10.4.

And that iMac will be able to handle Tiger with no problems. Just do a clean install and you will be fine. :black:

07-18-2005, 02:21 PM

go with tiger, it improves the sytem.

07-18-2005, 05:59 PM

thanks for the advice...one follow up question though...will Tiger have the drivers for the hardware? or will i have to figure another way to install them?

07-18-2005, 06:42 PM

Thats the genius of a mac, driver worries are almost non-existent. If you're using a stock imac then everything you need will be in the OS.

07-18-2005, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by mig.gentry

Thats the genius of a mac, driver worries are almost non-existent. If you're using a stock imac then everything you need will be in the OS.

Yeah, partial genius, partial annoyance. I know when I upgraded to Tiger, it installed 1GB of printer drivers, that's a bit much to me.

Your hardware will all work fine, and in many cases, possibly better than before.

07-20-2005, 12:54 PM

Just wanted to say thanks for all the help on this...i installed Tiger and it worked perfectly...prior to the install of Tiger the computer was pretty slow and appeared outdated...Tiger fixed all of that and even helped with some minor issues i was having with reading discs.

Now i am going to add some more RAM and it should be good to go.

Thanks again.


skip

07-20-2005, 01:17 PM

Man, I can't believe someone would sell a house and leave a Mac behind.