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

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

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.....

on some slower machines the beach ball always comes out because of the spotlight feature as it keeps indexing the drive...
you can opt to format and install or jus install straight...if the latter is the case your OS9 will just become the classic mode...you won't lose your data...

if you opt to format...you either have to reinstall OS9 for classic mode or just dump in a G5 additional install disc if you can find 1 to reload classic...but might not boot up OS9 or may lose some components if bootable...

but i think a clean install is better...
you might lose some printer drivers...and some other apps

YOU SHOULD HAVE ADMIT it in your very first post that your cd is el-cheapo prates from lowyat. For PC software, u can go lowyat. For Mac, pls rely on frens or from the net, or get the proper one from Apple reseller.

And I think you can close this topic now.

hahaha... say lar earlier "i bought this 4CD Mac OS X from Lowyat... bla bla bla..."
hahaha... then no need to waste so much time already.

well, sounds like u r not from KL. If not you can join me n my buddy when we head out from yum char. then u can get urself some help

I've just bought an ibook g3 500 dual usb version.
http://secretmayarecipe.blogspot.com/2006/...ple-desire.html

well... it took me a week to find the required dvds to install panther and tiger in it. at 1st i'm quite satisfy with panther. But i've heard that tiger can actually runs smoother than panther. thus i took the chance and installed tiger in it.
honestly, it's isn't really that snappy. and yes widgets don't run that smooth compare to current hardware.
but i find that it's quite useful for my "leisure" (messanger, surfing, itunes, microsoft word, blogging) machine when i use it while watching tv or playing video games.
I still got my Ferrari 4000 beside when when i want to do some serious work.
Spot light is quite useful as well because i feel that the search function respond very quickly. I think it even smoke my ferrari 4000 running search in xp.
Anyway, to my surprise. the ibook actually has got a pair of very nice speakers. It's even perform much better than any pc laptops that I've ever used.
I've tried osx86 in my ferrari 4000. and end up with everything working except sound for now. Since i'm very comfortable with mac now. I guess i'm ready for a switch now.
I'll get my mac book pro by next month.