Re: OS-X for an old iBook

In the message "[MAGNet] OS-X for an old iBook", dated 2003-11-06, G
Donald Bain wrote:

>Anyone have experience (or opinions) on upgrading an original iBook
>(I think of it as the "tangerine" generation) to OS-X? I am told it
>has lots of memory.

   At the presentation of Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther") by our Apple
systems engineer, Wyn Davies, he noted that he was seeing acceptable
responsiveness when running Panther on a first-generation iBook.

   Some comparative benchmarks of Panther and Jaguar running on a
variety of older and/or slower Macintoshes -- including a low-end
iMac with a 333 MHz G3 CPU -- are presented in:

   Dan Knight
   "Panther at the Low End, and What to Do with Jaguar
   http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/03/1030pf.html

   The article's introduction states that "Panther is definitely more
responsive than Jaguar, which was an improvement over 10.1. Some
reviewers are saying that 10.3 is responsive enough that Mac OS 9
users won't be able to complain about the speed." Of course, your
own experience might vary ...

   Of particular note, Dan's experiences also confirm that having lots
of RAM will significantly increase responsiveness under Panther.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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Received on Thu Nov 6 11:14:44 2003