Tiger on Pismo

[haribo]

I recently bought a Pismo to tide me by while my other Mac was in for repair and have grown rather fond of it. Since receiving it I've installed a Belkin wireless card which is recognised as Aiport card and I'm putting 512mb of ram in it tomorrow. My question is will my 400mhz G3 with 512mb of ram run well with Tiger or should I stick with Panther 10.3.9 which is on it at the moment? Many thanks.

 

[KoDorSean]

will it work? yes.. will it be fast? I doubt it. It really depends on what you plan to do with your mac. If you plan to surf the www and check your email Tiger would run well.. If you plan to do anything more than that you may want to stick with Panther.

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger system requirements

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301341

 

[haribo]

Thanks for that - I will just be using the Pis for more general stuff like e-mail, IM, WP, surfing etc so nothing intensive. My main query is whether my set up will run faster, slower or at around the same speed on Tiger as it does on Panther. I've heard that newer OS's can speed things up but I've also read that Panther is the best OS for a Pis. Cheers.

 

[dtravis7]

Some say that Tiger runs faster on older hardware. I know it's faster on my G4 500 Power Mac. The main thing is Tiger wants more RAM to run as smooth. The Pismo will take 1GB! Forgot about that. Just don't expect it to run iMovie as smooth as a more modern Powerbook, but Tiger will work.


http://www.lowendmac.com/pb2/pismo.shtml

 

[haribo]

I have an idea - I have an external FW drive which I could do an install of Tiger on and then boot into it on the Pis to give me an idea of how it will run if I upgrade.

Can I just use the Tiger disks from my G4 PB to upgrade?

Thanks again for everyones help. Just about to nip out to collect the RAM and drop it in.

 

[haribo]

RAM dropped in (after a very worrying hour or so when it just wouldn't power up again - eventually it did, seems I hadn't re-seated the processor firmly enough...phew!) but looks like I can't simply use the 10.4 install disks that I have for my G4 PB to upgrade...it comes up with an alert saying it can't be installed on this computer when I try. Do the install disks prohibit installation on anything other than a G4 if that what they came with? I thought it'd be OK to just upgrade like that but I guess not...