Hi all , I just buy the iBook G3 from my fren , basicly i only use iWork and photoshop also Internet explorer . But i feel very slow when i use OSX 10.2 , but smooth when OS 9.2 , 9.2 Smooth but more software is not supported , if i upgrade to tiger or panther , will it more smooth or worst ?

Hope everyone here can help, BTW i am a newbie use APPLE.

Panther would be better than Jaguar definitely...but i dun think Tiger is that suited for your iBook...if you have a large HDD...try to use Panther for CS and other X appz...other than that use back 9 to run old appz...it's a lot faster for your PB G3...

agreed. 500MHz is a little too little for Tiger

Tiger is a memory hog, especially with Dashboard running in the background. You're better off with Panther instead....

I'm running Panther on my Powermac G3 300Mhz. Yes u read it right 300Mhz. But i have load up 680MB of RAM. So 10.3.9 run without problem. A bit laggy when open up drive because of slow bus speed. Other wise is ok. But I didnt do work on it, it's my file server at home

If you want to run Tiger on ur iBook, disable spotlight & dashboard. load up ur RAM.

Thanks A Lot everyone , what the diffrent btween panther and tiger? i still can using MAC OS 9 , when i formatting my HDD? or need to install back OS 9 and X?

hey siemens... if you want to upgrade to Panther, you can keep your data. Don't worry.

Yep , I suggest you to move to Tiger

Tiger is a RAM eater , if you open Dashboard up..thats it...Panther should do a good job , you could try Tiger too..It should run "okayy"

are you contradicting yourself again....?

When i get this iBook , inside many data , applications , start up items . When i boot up OS X , it seen to be loading many data and take long time to start up , but when OS 9.2 it will start up "extreme" fast ! Thats why i need to format the HDD ,and try Tiger or Panther . I now downloading MAC OS X 10.4 CD version from BT .

I have facing a problems is , the all file is "CD1.dmg , CD2.dmg , CD3.dmg , CD4.dmg" will it booting when i burn directry to disc? i mean i am using PC download and PC burn it too... (iBOOK G3 does't have CD-RW rom) .

you do have a problem. Mac OS X Tiger is a DVD lar... what Cd1 and all this rubbish la.

phanter u just need CD1 only ler, others no need

what??? den what i download 1 cant use lo? ......

change ur iBook's HDD to a larger and faster (5400rpm) HDD and bump up the ram, that alone should be enough to help speed things up

Now the HDD is ATA66 15GB , how many RPM donno la .. hehe , i got think to upgrade the HDD oso , HDD easy get la , but RAM ar , so susah .... SD RAM now very few to see

Back to topic , u meant the HDD speed will inclease the performance? at loading or copying file ? Somewhere i hear ppl say Apple G3 processor if 500MHz same as pentium 3 1GHz , but when i using Apple now does't think so i think worst then Pentium II 500Mhz , but still haven know la ... coz i still downloading the Tiger .. maybe tiger will soft this thing ?

yo dude.... look for this guy, sonic_cd.... PM him and ask....

He has an iBook G3, not sure at what speed, but he does run OSX on it, also not sure if it's Panther or Tiger.... just ask him.....

Thanks you~

neither wan . its 10.2 jaguar though i did install 10.3 for a while(thank our local cd-shop ) 10.3 is ok but runs slowly,so reinstalled back 10.2 from the restore disc ... mine`s on a 800mhz g3 with 384mb ram and a 30gb hdd

your iBook's HDD speed is 4200rpm for sure.
A G3 500mhz = P3 1Ghz? I'm not sure... probably.

I know that my 667mhz G4 Powerbook can still run World of Warcraft but laggy. hehe RAM wise, you can try testing and see if ur iBook runs ok (without kernel panic) using PC Ram. Other than that, ur's an iBook so I doubt that there's much you can do to speed things up by a lot. Just stick to using OS9 and older software la.

Ooo ic .... it's seen to be no hope for using OSX tiger and later Mac software huh? I like Apple design , so i very happy to grap 1 iBook from my fren.

Got ppl upgrade processor before? hehehe ... ask only la ...