iBook G4 & Tiger

[CaryMG]

I have an iBook G4 that runs at 800MHz.

Is that fast enough ta run Tiger or would you guys recommend against it ?

:b&w:

 

[Christopher]

I have my 350MHz G3 running Tiger without a hitch.

 

[Pinstripes]

I have an iBook G3 running Tiger (w/640 RAM) and it's fine

 

[Gil]

My iBook G4 800 runs flawlessly.

 

[IPNixon]

When I had my Lombard (G3 333) up and running, it ran Tiger. I can definitely say that it was MUCH more smooth than Panther or Jaguar.

 

[bluekatt]

my ibook G3 500 mhz with 386 mb ram runs tiger just fine

( it has too it doesnt have a working cd rom and only tiger boots off a usb drive)

 

[Temetka]

An 800MHz G4 CPU is more than enough for Tiger.

Whether it is more than enough for Tiger and your apps of choice is purely subjective.

That being said, I don't know anyone who does FCP editing or Maya on an iBook. I think you should be just fine.

 

[bigD]

Just make sure you put as much memory as you can afford into that thing, and you should be fine.

 

[bluekatt]

Just make sure you put as much memory as you can afford into that thing, and you should be fine.

yes i was running panther for a while under 128 mb on a imac G4 800 mhz and i can tell you it was no fun

i added 256 mb ram and that made a lot of difference

 

[tmtomh]

The CPU is plenty fast enough for Tiger.

You need at least 512MB RAM to run Tiger with acceptable speed, though.

 

[Christopher]

HA! Tiger is running just fine with 256MB of my 350MHz iMac.....

 

[iMac600]

That machine is capable of Leopard even, once you crack the limiter on the disc. It will have no problems with Tiger.

 

[Temetka]

I am not so sure about Leopard. Oh it'll run ok. However that 32MB GPU is going to slow things down a tad. The overall user experience should be acceptable though.

I'm just not so sure about running Leo with a max of 640MB of RAM and that various apps for the user, plus background apps. I think it would be interesting to see what kind of performance he gets out of it.

Ibooks are nice machines. Someday I would like to own the original 500MHz IceBook. I was always intrigued by their looks and I know a 500MHz G3 is plenty fast for OS 9.

 

[Christopher]

The 500MHz iBook's are amazing machines. Thats all I have to say.

 

[wood_e]

That machine is capable of Leopard even, once you crack the limiter on the disc. It will have no problems with Tiger.

limiter? explain...

 

[bluekatt]

leopard has an artificial limiter that prevent it from running on lower G4 systems the threshold of 867 mhz is totally arbitrary it can be fooled by an open firmware trick

all support for G3 systems however have been written out of the code for leopard though

http://lowendmac.com/osx/leopard/openfirmware.html

 

[Christopher]

I wonder if someone could actually mod the code and add G3 support or a patch.

 

[bluekatt]

...yeah right

and rewrite mac os x in the mean time

there is no G3 support in leopard at all any more apple removed it from the code its gone a G4 is now the break off point

 

[Temetka]

I wonder if someone could actually mod the code and add G3 support or a patch.

Sure they could.

If they had access to the source code.

And a few good lawyers.

And deep pockets.

And....