Should I upgrade to "panther," or "tiger?"

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I have a G3 800/640/30gb iBook with OS X 10.2. Should I upgrade to 10.3 or just switch to tiger? Are there any real advantages of each OS? 10.2 is serving me well, and while it does serve me well, it's still a bit older. If I'm going to update to a newer version, doesn't it make sense to just get the newest update? I've heard that tiger actually runs a little bit faster than 10.2 or 10.3 on older machines, and I've also heard people say that it's a lot slower (more memory intensive.) I guess I'm really just confused right now. :black:
 
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I've also heard that Tiger runs faster on older machines, as for memory, 640 is plenty to run Tiger with decent results.
 
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You have plenty of RAM, go for Tiger!
 
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Tiger needs 512... you have 640... go for tiger, it is faster... just remember if you have to many widgets open at a time, it will seam slower then 10.2
 
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Sweet, seems like it's going to be tiger :)
 

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