Freecycle B&W!

[madmax_2069]

you can run up to tiger, tiger ran real good for me on my Beige G3 AIO in my sig , also tiger works well on my Yikes G4 400mhz with the same Radeon 7000 in it that was in my Beige G3. but with 340mb ram will be rather painful at times even running tiger ( i seen someone run tiger with 96mb ram) and it worked ( i would imagine it didn't run that good). but to have a well supported OS installed on it is for good measures, you could dual boot it with tiger on one HDD and panther on the other.

just a thought

 

[bluekatt]

tiger or panther i am inclined to go for panther less ram needy less hd space and still modern enough to run most apps

 

[The Macster]

Not really any point going with Panther, given that Tiger is similar but can run more modern apps, is more supported for updates (Panther will presumably stop getting updates very soon if it hasn't already), and doesn't require much more disk space or memory (just make sure you don't have any Dashboard widgets open).

 

[bluekatt]

tiger requires at least 4 gig

panther 3 if that you can trim it down to 2 gig

the dashboard and spotlight add a lot of overhead and heftier ram requirements panther will limp in 256 and run adequalty in 384

tiger wil defiantly limp in 512 and reli more on vm then panther woudl especially in G3 400

and despite what soem peopel may think or what apple wants us to believe panther is by no means obsolete nor out dated it is stilla modern operating system

most of the apps that need tiger are either superfluous or an equivalent or older version can be found which works just as wel

i woudl have thought that this forum of al others would actually be championing older software not damning it

 

[The Macster]

Tiger doesn't need anywhere near 4 GB if you deselect all the additional languages and printer drivers during the installation, and it doesn't "limp" in half a gig of memory, in fact it absolutely flies on my Mac - boots in 40 seconds, which is in fact faster than some brand new PCs, the interface is extremely responsive and smooth, Spotlight is fast, and all the latest software like Adobe CS3 and iLife '08 works great!

As for championing older software, yes, it may have its places, but I really don't see the point in going for older when newer does so much more for no major performance penalties.

 

[iMac600]

Panther limps on 128mb of RAM, No cache and a 66mhz system bus. Tiger dies in that equal space. Yes it can run more modern applications but the Spotlight & Dashboard overhead takes a lot out of the system. Disable those and you should be fine, nothing wrong with Panther though.

At the end of the day, either will do fine, just take your pick and install!

 

[MacTCP]

I'll see what I can find cheaper. Right now, all I have is Jaguar.

 

[MacTCP]

Now the B&W is dead. :'( :'( :'(

When pulling out the IDE ribbon, the ribbon came out, but not the connector. Now I can't use an HD. Is there anyway to get that connector out of the B&W? :'( :?:

 

[bluekatt]

got a pic ? im a bit fuzzy on the internals of blue g3's

 

[MacTCP]

Nevermind, I just barely got it out by prying with a flat screwdriver. [] ]'>

Now I'll look for an internal IDE ribbon.

 

[bluekatt]

i wanted to suggest that

 

[benjgvps]

Can't you just buy an IDE PCI card?

 

[Unknown_K]

Mac IDE PCI cards probably cost more then a B&W these days.

 

[MacTCP]

I got a long one for less than $5.