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Message: <blockquote data-quote="yogi" data-source="post: 406400" data-attributes="member: 8542">Since you don't like Clamshells, you should be fine. A G4 will run OS X Tiger quite well, especially if you also do some additional simple tweaking to speed up the OS (it hogs in some areas).Also, if you can, look out for getting enough RAM in your iBook G4, the more the better, and at least 512MB to survive, 1GB would sing though.iBooks aren't easily upgradable AFAIK, so you would have to send it in to ge tmore RAM at a later point, which will be rather expensive. Anyone correct me here if I'm wrong.David Pogue, a notable Author of Macintosh-related books and NY Times columnist, claimed that Tiger is not a "must-have" release, but also states that once you have it, you will find it hard to go back.So if it saves you money, you will survive with 10.3, and can get Leopard later when cash has rolled in again. I think you will savour the jump from 10.3 to 10.5 far more, so if you can save there, do it.Spotlight search isn't really that great yet, many people sewar by Quicksilver, which is available for Panther.I have to admit though that many Apps nowadays require 10.4 so you might run into disappointments here and there. It has even gone as far now as Intel-Only apps (e.g., Joost TV for Mac).So again, you would need to check out the apps you will need and decide based on that.Hope that helped a wee.</blockquote>